extolling
- present participle of extol.
Example Sentences
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Extolling the virtues of big-time college sports to the unpaid laborers grows harder and harder as the stacks grow taller and taller.
From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2016
Extolling Montagu’s contribution in Getting Even, Woody Allen wrote, “He freed mankind from the hot lunch. We owe him so much.”
From Time • Nov. 3, 2014
Extolling the virtues of transparency, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis famously wrote in 1913 that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2012
Extolling Brown's stand for human dignity in the face of unjust edict, Henry David Thoreau called him "the most American of us all."
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2011
Extolling its many virtues, the salesman noted that this was El Jefe’s favorite car.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
