How to Use ennoble in a Sentence

ennoble

verb
  • He was ennobled by the queen.
  • Her skill and talent ennoble her profession.
  • Teeth or Pants, the show has a way of both laughing at and ennobling its own failures.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Their lies are not ennobled by their positions; quite the contrary.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Work for human beings, then, is necessary and even ennobling.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The scientific method, applied as it is meant to be, ennobles us.
    — Rick Pescatore, Philly.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • There is little that is ennobling in an enterprise whose primary mission is to seek and destroy.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • To Williams and others, the finished product will ennoble the site and serve as an exclamation mark on its progress.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
  • Ritz, in his too-small shoes, may have felt ennobled by the presence of Princess Alexandra and the Duc d’Orléans.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The entire production is ennobled by his gift for listening actively to scene partners rather than waiting for his turn to speak.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
  • These days, college football can look more like the vast military industrial complex than any ennobling pursuit.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Mary Kay could have no doubt that selling was an ennobling endeavor, since God Himself seemed to be endorsing it.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Its secondary hero is ennobled by a folksy wisdom and probity so unalloyed as to border on the supernatural.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The narrative we’re given as Americans is that illness ennobles you.
    — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
  • Yet allowing the specifics of his ascent to be clouded by disdain is not much better than allowing his memory to be ennobled by mystery.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • In a way, that's what Gunderson's done here, by reviving her story, at once humanizing and ennobling her struggle.
    — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 6 June 2018
  • And, second, that ownership of great literature in its most talismanic form will ennoble you.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • In its lavish display of thriving life, the greenery seems both to reflect her fate and to ennoble her immediate experience.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 May 2022
  • At the same time, the religious elements in Crossroads work to ennoble the minutiae that Franzen embraces at last.
    — Becca Rothfeld, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Chocolate cake ennobled with hazelnuts and chocolate ganache is a bar raiser — and a welcome sight during a midnight refrigerator raid.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 June 2019
  • Shostakovich’s detractors have accused him of ennobling Stalin while defenders have sought out subtle musical cues of dissent.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Notwithstanding, the kashrut laws carry powerful ethical lessons – lessons that can help ennoble and sanctify our lives.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 9 Apr. 2018
  • That calls for a new program and offers us a new opportunity to try and improve the systems currently in peril—and to ennoble the great things that are happening around us….
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 10 June 2011
  • Francesca’s father Diego was inspired to ennoble Sicily’s then-low-end wine production at a time when the focus was on volume rather than quality.
    — Sofia Celeste, WWD, 21 June 2024
  • The goal is to further polarize the nation politically, to ennoble its voters, and to quash the opposition.
    — Mateusz Mazzini, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • In other words, a grand company continually needing rescue from the abyss, an ennobling endeavor, a way to communicate across time and space.
    — John Koethe, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
  • What Gadsby did was give the audience permission — moral permission — to turn their backs on what challenged them, and to ennoble a preference for comfort and kitsch.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • The Fitzgerald settlement ennobles neither side.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Two Wheels Good is clearly the work of a writer who loves to ride his bicycle but declines to ennoble it with odes to environmental virtue or social justice.
    — Curbed, 25 May 2022
  • That would scarcely have been necessary if not for the unstated recognition that a more respectable justification was needed to ennoble the bloodshed.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017

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