How to Use exalted in a Sentence

exalted

adjective
  • But even that holy duty hasn’t been enough to earn them an exalted status.
    — The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • In other words, colonies were not projects in which people placed exalted hope.
    — Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • But there’s also tragedy, not least in the nation’s failure to live up to its exalted ideals.
    — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
  • Driver, with his version of it, takes his place in their exalted company.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
  • One of baseball’s marquee franchises didn’t get to its exalted spot overnight.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Books made by artists themselves, as part of their work, occupied an even more exalted position.
    — Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • No other team has this type of exalted status and generate such fervour.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Having arrived at last at an exalted status, nothing would pry William from it.
    — Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • For a humble item, the cast-iron pan occupies an exalted place in many American homes.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
  • IIt was an exalted role because, after all, no one will buy products that aren’t appealing.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Aspiring to the nobility of being a Steven, but can’t quite achieve this exalted state.
    — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The wild likes to wring out all unnecessary claptrap and excess baggage until you’re left naked and exalted and clinging to the truth.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Meet her siblings Being a Supreme Court justice brings with it somber black robes and an exalted status.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Your ruling planet, Mars, enters its exalted sign of Capricorn on the 4th.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2023
  • England are not competitive but, of course, the Ashes still holds exalted status.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • How did this suave butcher, a compulsive liar who lived multiple lives, come to occupy such an exalted place in the medical field?
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The lugs are not the only reason the Patek Philippe Calatrava holds such an exalted place on this list.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Firefighters are probably the most exalted profession in our country and in our culture, and that’s for a reason.
    — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Inspiration for this dessert came from an exalted source, Helen Corbitt.
    — Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2020
  • As one of the world’s great metropolises, Tokyo takes its exalted status very seriously.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Such an exalted position also makes a school oblivious to what’s outside the fabled gates, no matter how many scholarships these schools award.
    — David Galef/chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Within this landscape, the Paiza Collection occupies an exalted tier of its own.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The exalted goal of unity and mutual respect resonated.
    — Blake D. Morant, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Since then, it’d been refashioned as a mobile global brand, propelled by what was until now his exalted public reputation.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But while Ashe was worthy, surely, of such exalted honor, the stadium should have been named for Althea Gibson.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
  • For this reason, Daft Punk’s aesthetics remain exalted by artists of all stripes, even nonmusical ones.
    — Patrick Lyons, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2021
  • By late June the most exalted would normally start displaying autumn and winter collections in shop windows.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • On the 4th, Mars enters its exalted sign of Capricorn and puts some communal fire power behind your efforts for the next six weeks.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Which is what the path through the gallery will ultimately reveal — exalted states from different times, all coming together in the end in a brilliant, emerald space.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Blanchette recounts the decision to shred most of them and to discard most of Mao’s ideas while preserving an exalted place for his image in Chinese life.
    — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 12 Mar. 2020

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