extolling

Example Sentences

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Extolling the virtues of big-time college sports to the unpaid laborers grows harder and harder as the stacks grow taller and taller.

From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2016

Extolling Montagu’s contribution in Getting Even, Woody Allen wrote, “He freed mankind from the hot lunch. We owe him so much.”

From Time • Nov. 3, 2014

Extolling the virtues of global education “that is not bound by borders,” the bill would prohibit colleges from directing any state aid toward groups that initiate boycotts of other countries.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2014

Extolling Brown's stand for human dignity in the face of unjust edict, Henry David Thoreau called him "the most American of us all."

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2011

Extolling its many virtues, the salesman noted that this was El Jefe’s favorite car.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez