How to Use glorify in a Sentence

glorify

verb
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  • Glorify and give thanks to God.
  • After all, glorifying one food over another (kale is king!) isn’t the way nutrition works.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Good Housekeeping, 26 Aug. 2016
  • Frends came about from a desire to glorify the true essence of what snowboarding is: living life to the fullest and traveling the world with your friends.
    — Hans Aschim, Esquire, 18 May 2017
  • Israel has long said the payments glorify terrorism and provide an incentive to kill.
    — Washington Post, 1 May 2017
  • Many people think The Iliad glorifies war and machismo.
    — National Geographic, 10 Jan. 2016
  • But which are just glorified Siri knockoffs, and which actually deliver the A.I. goods?
    — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2024
  • In each of these stories, male desire is glorified under the guise of existential loneliness, and the women's function is reduced to that of potential saviors.
    — Shoshana Olidort, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
  • There was a lot of feedback to the first season of the show and claims that glorified suicide.
    — Jean Bentley, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2018
  • His verse glorifies God but brings the divine down to earth.
    — Nick Ripatrazone, National Review, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Kelly was sold and glorified as the steady hand who would help clean up Trump’s act.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The song openly glorifies the use of prescription drugs as Lil Pump claims to have a drug habit.
    — Fox News, 7 June 2018
  • Much of the language used in reference to the Civil War glorifies the rebel cause.
    — Christopher Wilson, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The app had been used to glorify and encourage the attack.
    — Kevin Randall, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2021
  • This is a popular myth glorified in the media and in movies.
    — Stefanie Lyn Kaufman As Told To Korin Miller, SELF, 23 Aug. 2018
  • Alaïa glorified the female form in a very flirty, French way.
    — Vogue, 9 May 2018
  • Rappers flaunt bad-guy lifestyles; the head of the FBI works to bring down the drug empires that rappers glorify.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 18 Apr. 2018
  • She maybe smart, and an activist but for fat and overweight shouldn’t be glorified !
    — Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News, 1 July 2018
  • Many of his last posts spoke of suicide and even glorified the Columbine, Colo., high school rampage shooting.
    — Yesha Callahan, The Root, 9 June 2017
  • God gave us this life, our bodies, and our struggles to glorify him.
    — Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 11 July 2018
  • Sanz was aboard one of the Spanish ships, yet his painting seems to glorify U.S. power.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • But some students are glorifying the idea of fighting the shooter and saving the day.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • Is this really the time to glorify a man like Mel Gibson?
    — Joshua Malina, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Please don’t glorify a homeless vagrant who has nowhere to go.
    — Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
  • And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2019
  • This year, Kim Jong-un has no athlete who can glorify him as Ms. Jong did his father.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The lyrics of the national anthem, written in 1984, mainly serve to glorify the king and Islam.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2018
  • But don't expect to see any of the Nazi propaganda that glorifies a tyrant.
    — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2018
  • The music video glorifies the firebrand with dry ice, slow-motion shots, and red lighting.
    — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But there is an inescapable bathos in the way Ronaldo glorifies these achievements.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • The lyrics of iconic tango songs frequently glorify domestic violence.
    — Charis McGowan, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Aug. 2024

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