sanctify

Example Sentences

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It is that the law will sanctify it.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2025

These shrines laden with incense, flowers and other offerings sanctify its gardens, waters and the surrounding landscape, and they highlight the psychic malaise dominating most of its visitors.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2025

Enshrined, meaning to cherish, revere, exalt, consecrate and sanctify, is a word of dignity and respect now side-by-side with same-sex marriages and families, and interracial families.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2022

But what I liked best about Stewart’s performance was her refusal to sanctify Diana.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2021

No one directly proclaimed that schools were designed to sanctify failure and destruction.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates