Sentence examples for glorify from inspiring English sources

"glorify" is an acceptable word in written English.
It is a verb that means to praise or honor someone or something highly. For example, "The people glorified the hero for his brave and noble actions".

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glorify

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To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone).

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Blurred Lines has been widely criticised for appearing to glorify rape and violent sex, with lyrics including "I know you want it", "I'll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two", and "Nothing like your last guy, he too square for you/ He don't smack that ass and pull your hair like that".

"Things are calm, yes, but it feels like the calm before the storm," said a local music producer who specialises in narcocorridos – accordion-driven ballads often commissioned by traffickers to glorify their exploits.

But most of all I wanted to glorify myself.

Blatter commissioned this movie with £16m of Fifa's loose change to glorify Fifa, but mostly its longtime president.

The popular Ukrainian band Okean Elzy have stopped playing concerts in Russia since the Maidan revolution in Kiev, and the Ukrainian government has banned films that are perceived to glorify Russia's military.

We can glorify who we were, who others were and the glamorous life we led".

They called for the destruction of museums and libraries, and swore to glorify militarism and patriotism, as well as war, "the world's only hygiene".Despite this faintly ridiculous, bombastic tone, futurism only ended with the death of its poet-founder, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, in 1944.

In December last year Newt Gingrich, then a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in America, said Palestine had textbooks "that say, if there are 13 Jews and nine Jews are killed, how many Jews are left?" In 2007 Hillary Clinton blasted Palestinian textbooks for teaching children to glorify death and violence.

Instead, he repeated his favourite proverb: "Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter".

It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

And so the glossy magazines that glorify such luxuries are flooding into what publishers see as the world's most promising new market".There is a large number of new rich Chinese people who are willing to spend money on luxury items," gloats Yu Lei, who edits Shanghai Tatler, a glossy whose 60,000 monthly copies are mostly sent free to Shanghai's top earners.

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