Example Sentences

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This growing archipelago of excellence will leaven academia with the diversity that matters most.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2017

Maybe their presence will leaven this country a little bit.

From Time • Jun. 21, 2013

Phil Silvers, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray and Tennessee Ernie Ford join Danny for the first of six musical-variety specials that will leaven this new dramatic-anthology series.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

But the bibliothecal leaven will leaven the community more directly.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore