ennoble

Example Sentences

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Fort Bragg in North Carolina would be christened Fort Liberty as a reminder of the values that ennoble military service.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2022

The number of people who, out of civic generosity, think that they can enlarge or ennoble their selves by giving their energies to a good larger than themselves?

From Salon • May 27, 2019

“I think I know who Virginians are — I think they want somebody who will ennoble and uplift and motivate rather than divide.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2018

It’s a little like Francois Truffaut’s claim that “There is no such thing as an antiwar film,” because to depict war is to ennoble it.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2017

Thou shalt find that many who profess the art, confess not to that which they yet endure,—a sort of shame in their profession, as if they should ennoble it, and not it them.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth