How to Use edify in a Sentence

edify

verb
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  • These books will both entertain and edify readers.
  • What will edify us now, and echo down to generations to come and uplift them?
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2011
  • At the heart of the Nicomachean Ethics is a claim that remains both edifying and chastening: phronesis doesn’t come that easy.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The problem is, the debate usually devolves into a facile back and forth that edifies no one.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Yet Beard seems delighted to edify and even befriend her haters.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 16 May 2021
  • Zimmer sprinkles his book with stories that both dazzle and edify the reader.
    — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Music helps, of course, as do games—but nothing can entertain and edify quite like a good audiobook.
    — Vogue, 12 July 2021
  • There’s no need to fret about merely being edified by the material.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 12 Apr. 2017
  • Take, as an edifying out-of-town example, the Atlantic Casino Hilton Hotel, built in 1985.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Next week, the senior center is hosting a weeklong affair to edify its members.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
  • That’s not to say that the ensuing conversation would have been edifying.
    — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
  • General readers will be more edified by the story of the expedition itself, which the author describes in detail.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
  • If handled properly, change can be a great opportunity to edify your team and give your managers the skills to become better leaders.
    — Jane Sparrow, Forbes, 7 May 2021
  • Finding the least taxing way to activate your inner circle could gratify — and edify — all involved, and restore a sense of control over your own well-being.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • So be intentional about edifying your mind, body, and spirit.
    — Ashley McDonough, Essence, 12 Nov. 2019
  • If a reporter were to crop a photo that was previously edified using Photoshop, for example, both of those changes to the images would be noted in the final manifest.
    — Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Our conversations are jovial, sometimes alarming, and always edifying, at least for me.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Reality agreed to date her high-school boyfriend, Carlos, on certain conditions intended to improve and to edify.
    — Kerry Howley, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The distillery tour was edifying, the country beautiful, the double-oaked bourbon like drinking an alcoholic waffle.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Architecture to me is successful when the community is empowered by it, is edified by it, and is elevated by it.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018
  • The past several weeks haven’t been particularly edifying for the health of American culture.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
  • And in part because of this idea that had been upheld since the nineteenth century, that at least classical music’s purpose is to edify, right, unlike pop music, unlike hip-hop, or other things that are commercial that are for making money.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
  • At once edifying and entertaining, Miller’s book traces the history of the global semiconductor industry.
    — Chris Miller, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • At a time when Britain is fighting rising Islamophobia, the outpouring of affection for an Egyptian-national superstar who is proud and public about his Muslim faith has been edifying.
    — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 29 May 2018
  • His music, like that of others but more than most, can edify, elevate and inspire in its intelligence, its endless inventiveness and its understated emotion.
    — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020
  • When crimes against the innocent are perpetuated by those spiritually entrusted to edify and protect the faithful, the damage is all the more devastating and its reverberation is wide and long.
    — Father Edward Beck, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
  • In this dense, deeply researched, and edifying volume, Medani takes on the vexed question of how Islamist political movements use informal financial networks in recruiting and sustaining their members.
    — Khalid Mustafa Medani, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Some women, such as educator Catharine Beecher, argued that women deserved rights because of their morality—as they were uniquely positioned to edify and enlighten men—not their humanity.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Gossip helps edify listeners by determining what is and isn’t acceptable, and who has violated social conventions and decorum.
    — Amy Collier, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Watching legacy carmakers pivot toward electrification isn’t always the most edifying spectacle, and Lamborghini’s first fully electric car and fourth model line won’t arrive until later in the decade.
    — WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023

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