inspire
Example Sentences
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It’s elementary: Characters can do outlandish things, commit outrageous crimes, be inspired by the pettiest of motives.
She also started incorporating images of other inspiring women, including her maternal forebears and the Cuban American sculptor Ana Mendieta.
From Los Angeles Times
Its history helped inspire a season of the HBO crime drama “True Detective.”
From Los Angeles Times
"Her uncompromising leadership repeatedly freed the nation from undemocratic conditions and inspired people to strive for freedom."
From Barron's
Whether current politics inspired that thread doesn’t matter; those ideas are baked into the clay of American history, making the broader lessons of “Sinners” timeless.
From Salon
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