How to Use dignify in a Sentence

dignify

verb
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  • She felt that formal clothing would help dignify the occasion.
  • He said he wouldn't dignify his opponents' accusations by responding to them.
  • During the peace process, the Guatemalan government wanted to dignify the memory of those killed by the state.
    — Laura Klairmont, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The idea is to dignify our culture and make people feel proud of our mexicanidad.
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Who decided—in a very few seconds—the weapon formed against them didn’t dignify a response?
    — Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 25 Mar. 2022
  • All of them want Poly to honor and dignify their suffering.
    — Eric Lewis, Esquire, 17 Nov. 2016
  • While anyone might feel an urge to push for that fundraiser, Heart of Dinner's team wanted to dignify the man’s wishes.
    — Karissa Chen, Bon Appétit, 31 May 2022
  • As for Dolly Parton, there have been rumors over the years of encounters in which she was told about the bridge and declined to dignify the news with a response.
    — al.com, 30 June 2019
  • The campaign wouldn’t dignify it with a proper statement.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Slaughter was always searching in those days for ways to dignify the title and elevate the women who won it.
    — Amy Argetsinger, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2021
  • There’s something very dignifying in his fright and his emotions.
    — Vulture, 24 May 2023
  • Then there’s the randomness of life: how a ton of bad stuff happens to some of us, even the nicest and most innocent of us, while some blithely skate on to as dignified a death as a death ever can be.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The story doesn't deserve to be dignified by being broadcast and displayed.
    — Fox News, 26 Mar. 2018
  • And David, once dignified with the Turkish honorific effendi, would die in Auschwitz with much of his family in 1943.
    — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The news is expected to be broken in a careful, somber manner, with hosts wearing black to dignify the importance of what has happened.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The clothes are formal, dignified, structured, rule-bound, but also nuanced.
    — Robin Givhan, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Dionne cannot even dignify a response to Ms. Franklin’s perplexing and ridiculous statement.
    — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Who wanted to dignify such dumb scenarios with sober analyses?
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The inequality between the men — Rick lives in a spacious ranch house up in the hills, Cliff in a cluttered trailer down in the valley — is what dignifies their bond, just as the contrast of their temperaments sustain it.
    — New York Times, 24 July 2019
  • These movies didn’t deserve him, but Khan dignified them with his presence, refusing to sink with the flimsy material he was given.
    — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Dignified paying customers who are there to support the business are offended by the lack of discipline some children are allowed to display.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Twin Cities, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Daddy Bill’s life pointed me to the Jesus who not only notices these precious people, but stops everything in order to move towards them, serve them and dignify them.
    — Boz Tchividjian, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Yet the politicians who dignify it with specious arguments are making fools of themselves and harming America.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • So far, the bill dignifies vertebrates, decapod crustaceans (crabs and lobsters), and cephalopods (squids and octopuses), but not a single conscious bee.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • But at a time when too many filmmakers still mistake message-mongering for art, a picture that quietly dignifies the medium is more than sufficient for me.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The president is incredibly smart, not dignify this dinner with his presence.
    — Fox News, 1 May 2018
  • But at a moment when democracy itself is under assault, Mr. Youngkin chose to dignify a fundamental fiction that is subverting our system, rather than stand up squarely for the truth.
    — Fox News, 5 July 2022
  • Advisers were encouraging Trump to not dignify Romney's vote with a response, and there were no immediate plans to campaign against Romney.
    — Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Any society is free to dignify labor by implementing policies like that.
    — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • So much so that when President Donald Trump inevitably complained about players kneeling for the national anthem, barely anyone inside the bubble was willing to dignify it with much of a response.
    — Michael Weinreb, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2020

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