Example Sentences

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Trinidad Gonzales, a history professor at South Texas College, said the pamphlet aggrandizes Manifest Destiny, the belief that American settlers had the God-given right to expand across North America.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2022

It seems like, among other things a miserable mindset, one that aggrandizes your ego but withers your soul.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2019

Nichol, who also deftly shot and edited the film, never fetishizes or aggrandizes the typewriter, but instead smartly contextualizes its place as a classic symbol of American ingenuity, practicality and style.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2017

The concept of evil being the easiest trick by which the middlebrow mind aggrandizes itself, her readers wanted Mephistopheles; but Eichmann persisted in being small.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2012

This ubiquitous possibility of the Mark's occurring—the ignorance of the archer where his gifted arrow will strike—ennobles, aggrandizes his person and his work.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various