How to Use sanctify in a Sentence

sanctify

verb

• The constitution sanctified the rights of the people.
• The priest sanctified their marriage.
• His clear tenor sanctified the songs, gave them a bit of distance from their author.
  — Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2020
• Confined to one gallery with a dozen or so large-scale works, that show felt almost sanctified, as if one were in a chapel.
  — Siobhan Morrissey, miamiherald, 13 Oct. 2017
• The Kiddush is a blessing to sanctify the beginning of the holiday.
  — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 11 July 2022
• But the songs — one sanctified, the other low-down — also reflect the remarkable range of Franklin's singing on this deep soul classic.
  — Mikael Wood, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• These sequences sanctify the historical position that the onerous terms of the treaty are what led to Hitler and the Holocaust.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• For a moment in time, with the bright lights and loud music, everyone in that room was sanctified under the holy sway of whatever Deion had to say.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• An ornate metal crucifix in the foreground and a wooden one on the wall behind the couple sanctify the scene.
  — Peter Van Agtmael, Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
• Teach, sanctify, govern: The three verbs define the work of a bishop, according to tradition and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 4 Jan. 2023
• Usually they are found in temples, where water is sanctified by being poured over the top.
  — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
• Guests will see priests sanctify the sprawling space on Friday and install new deities on Saturday and Sunday.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Sooner or later, Adani will expand the mine even further—disturbing even the makeshift spot for worship by cutting down the trees sanctified with mud.
  — Kuwar Singh, Quartz India, 24 Oct. 2019
• The move also seems to sanctify Amazon’s role as the dominant interface between brands and users.
  — Ángel González, The Seattle Times, 20 July 2017
• Her books are sanctified by an expansive love for humankind.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2017
• But the coronation sanctifies a monarch’s rule and, through a national celebration, aims to bind the sovereign to the people.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 May 2023
• In this way, even humble tasks can become a sacramental gesture, sanctified by the divine.
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2017
• My book is earmarked, underlined, co-signed and sanctified.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 12 Apr. 2018
• Indeed to sanctify your memory would be to miss out on the very core of your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humor with a laugh that bent you double.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2022
• One of these states would be Israel, a homeland for Jews in territory sanctified for them by heritage and history.
  — Martin Peretz, WSJ, 8 May 2018
• De Hooch was arguably the first artist to sanctify these passing moments among the Dutch housewives and maidservants of a prosperous but unsettled time.
  — B.t. | Delft, The Economist, 16 Oct. 2019
• Contrary to many social mores, milah and niddah attempt to sanctify life, even in the most powerful and intimate realms.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• By the end of the second century, early Christian theologians like St. Clement of Alexandria described two fires: one that destroys and one that sanctifies.
  — Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
• Did this reversal of reproduction sanctify the event or displace it?
  — Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• But this second single was his debut album’s title track, as well as its opening song, and the moment where the New George was properly solidified -- and sanctified, too.
  — Jude Rogers, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017
• Though Barbara is the sympathetic center of the story, she is not sanctified, nor is Ron merely a caricature of thuggishness.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2019
• The radicals and socialists had done much of the heavy lifting to establish the legitimacy of these new governments, and sanctified the revolution with their own blood.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• Then wayward Diana appeared, shielded by stardom and sanctified by early death.
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• But June 17th is not sanctified in political memory, and the Egyptian state media didn’t mention the coincidence of Morsi dying on this date.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
• The aura of Andy Warhol, another party buddy, shines on him, sanctifying all worldly ambition.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024