Example Sentences

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They are exalting grapes that had been written off and expressions that had been dismissed.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022

On the same CBS broadcast, reporter Elizabeth Kaledin reported that “people are coveting prescriptions. Politicians exposed in the latest attack are exalting it by name.”

From Slate • May 1, 2021

On the contrary, they are exalting in his shamelessness.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2019

You are exalting your services; and when the first moment of trial comes, you rise like a wild horse, and shout, 'I will not go!'

From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

“Let us not fancy, like Swift, that we are exalting a woman’s character by telling how she “‘Could name the ancient heroes round, Explain for what they were renowned,’ etc.”

From Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson by Morley, Henry