How to Use edify in a Sentence

edify

verb
  • These books will both entertain and edify readers.
  • When Taylor and Dion dig into the past, the results are edifying.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
  • 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
  • There are stories and edifying captions on just about every page.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024
  • That’s not to say that the ensuing conversation would have been edifying.
    — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
  • For two decades, this edifying A&E docuseries has been lifting the veil of investigative work during that critical time frame.
    — EW.com, 27 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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, 30 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Many of those parents have grown cynical about politicians of all stripes, but now have hope that Trump will pursue policies that edify, rather than undermine, the nuclear family.
    — Chad Williams, National Review, 30 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • After an edifying decline, dog attacks on postal carriers are rising again, both in California and the nation, according to data wrangled from the Postal Service.
    — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 24 June 2024
  • But hang in there: Viewers who allow themselves to be taken on this wide-ranging, occasionally digressive journey will emerge not just edified but emotionally wrung out and, somehow, cleansed.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • At once edifying and entertaining, Miller’s book traces the history of the global semiconductor industry.
    — Chris Miller, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023

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