How to Use aggrandize in a Sentence

aggrandize

verb
Definition of aggrandizenext
Synonyms for aggrandizenext
  • But the movie is slightly ahead of the curve in branding Assange as a self-aggrandizing hustler.
    — Noel Murray, The Verge, 11 May 2018
  • Far from the boastful, self-aggrandizing videos of the past, the group is now urging fighters to resist and not run away from the battlefield.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2017
  • And as memoir films go, Lady Bird is very low on the list of self-aggrandizing narratives.
    — Richard Lawson, HWD, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Soon Parveen discovers that Crane’s book is a self-aggrandizing fabric of lies.
    — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Yeon-sik Hong’s view of his younger self is unsparing and complex, neither self-loathing nor aggrandizing.
    — Isaac Butler, Slate Magazine, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The weakest episode of the new season presents flashbacks to Philip’s teenage years and the death of his sister, which humanize him, but don’t quite jibe with the cocky, self-aggrandizing provocateur Smith plays Philip as.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2017
  • The press, by its own self-aggrandizing account, is enjoying some new golden age.
    — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017
  • These lines read like lyrics by a self-aggrandizing old man who deals in generalities.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Sánchez had wanted to exhume the former dictator from the Valley of the Fallen, a self-aggrandizing mausoleum, on June 10 and move the embalmed body to a public cemetery in the outskirts of Madrid.
    — Washington Post, 5 June 2019
  • Even an attempt to mend fences came across as a slight, when Trump stood in front of a wall dedicated to C.I.A. officers killed in the line of duty and delivered a self-aggrandizing speech.
    — Chris Smith, The Hive, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Back in the go-go 1980s, the airline business was like catnip to any self-respecting (or self-aggrandizing) entrepreneur.
    — Barbara Peterson, CNT, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Atlanta rapper Tauheed Epps, better known as 2 Chainz, has built a career out of recording self-aggrandizing verses even more outsize than his six-foot, five-inch frame.
    — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Many Democrats came to view Mr. Nader as an obstreperous, self-aggrandizing spoiler.
    — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 9 June 2016
  • The detective blames Nichols, the self-aggrandizing adviser who convinced the Cabazons to build a casino, for conjuring the intrigue that continued to befog the case long after his death.
    — Andrew Rice, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2011
  • Trump, the self-aggrandizer-in-chief, reportedly had concluded Bannon was too self-aggrandizing, disruptive and worse of all, the source of White House leaks.
    — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The second outing with self-aggrandizing stalker (and murderer) Joe is just as addictive as the first, if a little repetitive.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
  • There’s Eastern European folk music, soft shoe numbers, self-aggrandizing hip-hop, guitar rock and more.
    — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The more self-aggrandizing inmates, the ones who imagined themselves as the inspiration for a big-budget thriller, saw talking to Cox as an opportunity to get their story out there.
    — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 16 July 2019
  • Reprinting the self-aggrandizing selfies a killer has posted to social media prior to an attack, for example, is not helpful.
    — Corinne Purtill, Quartz, 4 June 2019
  • America’s public discourse seems to consist of a never-ending series of brief monologues, typed out on social media and intended to wound others and aggrandize the self.
    — Jory Fleming, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • What had happened to this diminutive scholar from Baghdad, in Iraq's dusty plains and dense alleyways, to leave him capable of such a self-aggrandizing pronouncement and the sickening violence that went with it?
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Somehow, all that self-aggrandizing nonsense has at least some Americans convinced.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 10 Aug. 2017
  • But with witty, self-aware yet self-aggrandizing remarks like that, Daniels has been established, in some 30 minutes of airtime, as a defining figure of a presidency that had so far seemed to allow only one.
    — Daniel D'addario, Time, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Naysayers often charge that critics and sommeliers explore the wine fringes in an arrogant, self-aggrandizing desire to show off something new and different.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
  • In the article, the 29-year-old central midfielder explains that the story was simply massively aggrandized by Spanish media outlets.
    — SI.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • There are no terra-cotta warriors, no self-aggrandizing monuments, no Ozymandian announcements of greatness to the world there.
    — Charles E. F. Millard, National Review, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The new president declares his inauguration day a special, self-aggrandizing day and goes on to sign an unprecedented number of executive orders in his first two weeks in office.
    — Steve Bachar, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2017
  • Theranos' second-in-command was Sunny Balwani, her combative and self-aggrandizing boyfriend.
    — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 21 May 2018
  • This self-aggrandizing, reality-denying flavor of egotism has defined Trump for decades, through his roller-coaster business career and into political life.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Both are equestrian statues, the magnificent, muscular horses aggrandizing their riders through the soldiers’ partnership with — and control of — a powerful force of nature.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 18 Aug. 2017

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