How to Use glorify in a Sentence

glorify

verb

• Glorify and give thanks to God.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But there is an inescapable bathos in the way Ronaldo glorifies these achievements.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 31 May 2024
• At the time, the Postal Service was on the lookout for anything that seemed to glorify what its censors thought of as perversion.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
• Sofía Vergara has said that Griselda was not a hero, and she should not be idolized, and the series was careful not to glorify her.
  — Laura Zornosa, TIME, 26 Jan. 2024
• Dottie wasn’t someone to throw a team under the bus for the sake of appeasing a glorified on-field temper tantrum.
  — Anne T. Donahue, Cosmopolitan, 30 June 2017
• Where does this urge to glorify cute animals come from?
  — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored glorified loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever.
  — courant.com, 29 June 2019
• The political climate may prompt such people to think their attacks are serving some greater good, or even that they will be glorified as warriors.
  — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2024
• Fresh shrimp is tossed with cool watermelon; biscuits are laced with 7Up for a peppy lift; crab rolls are glorified as a more decadent alternative to lobster rolls.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024