Example Sentences

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That ruthless self-refinement is sorely missing in the follow-up season of another series about older women mounting a showbiz comeback.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2022

By self-refinement he has become a Nation's pattern.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

It was a liberty of a purely moral kind, a liberty, that is, achieved at the cost of a great effort in self-discipline and self-refinement.

From Aspects of Literature by Murry, J. Middleton