How to Use exalt in a Sentence

exalt

verb
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  • The essay exalts the simple beauty of the country.
  • He shamelessly exalts his own role in the peace process.
  • His behavior has exalted the power and prestige of his office.
  • We exalt thee, O Lord.
  • The point is not to poke fun at the mundanity, but to exalt it.
    — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2023
  • There’s chart action right now for songs that exalt women as paragons of virtue.
    — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The music world has come to exalt the B-52as a new wave institution.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Kings have used it to exalt themselves, tyrants to decide which people to purge.
    — Maud Newton, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2022
  • White supremacy exalts the creature over the Creator, and the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against it.
    — Russell Moore, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2017
  • In the heady days following the Battle of Gettysburg, the press exalted Meade as the savior of the Union.
    — Nicholas Liu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
  • Saquon Barkley and Josh Allen, which would have been hated by some and exalted by others, might have worked.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • In a sport where progression is exalted, the athletes pushed the level of riding at the Dew Tour.
    — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Ayesha has always been wary of programs that exalt donors as saviors.
    — Alex Bhattacharji, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Its shares have kept up with the stockmarket and its standing is exalted.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Mothers don’t need to be on a pedestal, to be exalted for their strength and their inevitable suffering.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al.com, 13 June 2019
  • In the wake of his election victory, Trump soon stopped exalting Putin.
    — Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Fassbinder exalts the exploits of the hidden heroes of daily life.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Herodotus mentioned it back in the fifth century B.C., the Romans chewed it to clean their teeth and freshen their breath, and the Ottomans exalted it as a spice.
    — Margarita Gokun Silver, National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The military instills and exalts an ethos of self-reliance.
    — Martin Kuz, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The texture exalted in East and Southeast Asian cuisines doesn’t get much love in western culture.
    — Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Religion, art, and every aspect of courtly culture were used to exalt the image of the new queen.
    — History Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The exhibit ended up being a call to arms for fashion as an art, something that exalted the craft to new heights.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 1 May 2017
  • Then, given the choice to try to beat these deplorables on the issues that people care about or exalt them as towering threats, Biden went the exalt route.
    — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
  • But can one exalt real curves without showing too much skin?
    — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The objective of the project is to show and exalt McGowan specifically — and that might test some viewers’ patience.
    — Dayna Evans, Cosmopolitan, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The shapes may be quotidian, but the effect is exalted.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
  • Hey, if people really want to exalt Black women, here’s an idea: Listen to them.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 7 Jan. 2021
  • There is a lot of this gliding, though by midway through the piece, it’s performed with heads tipped back, elbows bent with wrists dangling at the waist, exalting the chest toward the heavens.
    — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Others abjured the brainy, the hifalutin, and the efforts to exalt rock and pop by taking it too seriously.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Nor are black women exalted by society the way white women are.
    — Kyla Jenee Lacey, The Root, 31 Oct. 2017

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