How to Use exalt in a Sentence

exalt

verb

• 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
• Aftab exalts her beloved’s moon-like beauty throughout the song.
  — Vrinda Jagota, SPIN, 29 May 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• This isn't the first time a Sony-Marvel film has had a whimper of a release while being exalted online.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
• The texture exalted in East and Southeast Asian cuisines doesn’t get much love in western culture.
  — Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 21 Oct. 2019
• Of course, there are also the lyrics: heartfelt couplets that exalt God and thank Him for being a constant presence in her life.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023
• 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
• For opponents of neoliberalism today, the lesson to draw is hardly to exalt the nation above the globe.
  — Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
• The moon is not only exalted in the sign of Taurus — which is another way to describe its overall amplification and strength — but also closely aligned with Venus, the planet of love and beauty.
  — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 20 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024