Example Sentences

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Their words have uplifted the family during a time of need.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2024

Mr. Nixon should have uplifted the standards of a new crusade against that handful of great robbers who, making Tammany their stronghold, issued forth to a rapine of the town.

From The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 by Lewis, Alfred Henry

Let him fear them doubly, Whom they have uplifted!

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred

Like the Sierra, the mountains we see to-day are not the first; several times their ranges have uplifted upon wrecks of former ranges, which had yielded to the assaults of frost and rain.

From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling

I can tell of manhood debased by you, That I have uplifted and crowned anew.

From Maurine and Other Poems by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler