uplift
verb (used with object)
to lift up; raise; elevate.
is uplifting
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present progressiveof uplift (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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You’re just free and it’s fun and music is uplifting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Her emotional support is uplifting; we talk for the whole 30 minutes allotted.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
People in the city said Manchester was the perfect host because it was "an amazing city, its energy is uplifting and it is full of youth".
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023
Her true genre is uplifting, forward-thinking, character-driven science fiction: cozy page-turners attuned to diplomacy, tea drinking, alien minds and the urgent power of self-definition.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
The extent to which the Negro pulpit is uplifting the race is to be seen in the gradual but certain and permanent reformation taking place in the social and moral life of the race.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp
