How to Use glorify in a Sentence

glorify

verb
  • Glorify and give thanks to God.
  • Or try to make space for yourself in a world that glorifies hustle?
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 30 Dec. 2024
  • God gave us this life, our bodies, and our struggles to glorify him.
    — Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 11 July 2018
  • Please don’t glorify a homeless vagrant who has nowhere to go.
    — Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
  • It’s glorified by the rap culture.
    — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There was a lot of feedback to the first season of the show and claims that glorified suicide.
    — Jean Bentley, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2018
  • Only people who’ve never been to war seek war, or glorify it.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2019
  • In a world that glorifies rapid success, longevity can feel like an anomaly.
    — Colleen Werner, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Alaïa glorified the female form in a very flirty, French way.
    — Vogue, 9 May 2018
  • Olmec sculptures often glorified rulers and gods.
    — New Atlas, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Our society glorifies those who game the system over those who master their craft.
    — Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Irish symbols, booze and leprechauns were glorified.
    — Bella Monaco, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Stop glorifying the grind and design a business that truly serves your life.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Most, in fact, had been glorifying God for years, at church or at home or at soccer matches.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • The music video glorifies the firebrand with dry ice, slow-motion shots, and red lighting.
    — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023
  • When building a startup, it’s glorified to work 100 hours a week.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But there is an inescapable bathos in the way Ronaldo glorifies these achievements.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • Our culture often glorifies doing more, but rest is just as vital.
    — Kelly Mickle, SELF, 29 Dec. 2025
  • But some students are glorifying the idea of fighting the shooter and saving the day.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • Non-meat mains are… fine… but this joint glorifies the carnivorous lifestyle.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But don't expect to see any of the Nazi propaganda that glorifies a tyrant.
    — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2018
  • The song openly glorifies the use of prescription drugs as Lil Pump claims to have a drug habit.
    — Fox News, 7 June 2018
  • Lift operators are glorified alpine life guards.
    — Corey Buhay, Outside, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Stop glorifying hours logged or calendars packed.
    — Daisy Auger-Domínguez, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Much of the language used in reference to the Civil War glorifies the rebel cause.
    — Christopher Wilson, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Lutalo doesn’t want to be glorified for his work in the community, David said.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Mindfulness takes that preliminary and glorifies it into the be-all and end-all.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
  • At first, Park struggled to understand how a three-hour movie could be made about a love affair, rather than glorifying a regime.
    — Kennett Werner, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The Kings, Preds, Mammoth ought to all be glorified cannon fodder.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026
  • It gets glorified more lately because of the volume of threes that are being taken, and because some of the teams that have been winning are built like that.
    — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 21 May 2018

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