Example Sentences

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Having a pint on the beachfront promenade, Sean Sutton and Maria Atkins, both 46-year-old leave voters, said they didn’t think they were glorifying the past.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2016

Few were glorifying his postprison life when he was sitting on the sidelines.

From Time • Jan. 28, 2011

The cry was taken up by battalion after battalion, and went echoing along—the splendid, hearty applause of men who were glorifying their own achievements as well.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Griffiths, Arthur

They were glorifying the human and exalting the natural.

From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by Van Dyke, John Charles