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How to use the word glorify in a Sentence?

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I was built for music, designed to propel it, and disciplined to respect it. Music is not just some passion but a calling to glorify he that gave me the gift.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
4 days ago

One more thing they need to do is focus on crime, when you go and say that you’re going to glorify criminals instead of having the backs of law enforcement, don’t be shocked when crime goes up. Don’t be shocked when murders go up. We’ve got to have a Senate that understands that we’ve gotta put law and order back in place.

Nikki Haley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It wasn't to glorify what happened on January the sixth, i want every single person who had a bad intention, or who did anything wrong on January the sixth, to be to be held accountable for that. But also, I want the people who were being held to be treated justly.

Salleigh Grubbs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We glorify God for answered prayer — the remaining 12 hostages are FREE! join us in praising God that all 17 of our loved ones are now safe.

Christian Aid

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

(The graduates of orphan schools) volunteered to work in major worksites for socialist construction out of their will to glorify their youth in the struggle for the prosperity of the country, they finished their school courses under the warm care of the mother Party.

Saturday KCNA

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

A general at DoD was especially worrying under Trump, trump had zero foreign policy experience, a penchant to glorify violence, a total neophyte Secretary of State, and an unstable, war mongering former general as NSA.

Chris Murphy

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Every suicide death for us is a very tragic case, we have to deal with them very carefully, not sensationalize them, not try and glorify them, when people feel very helpless they might think if I die I can stir up so much emotion and energy, and give fuel to the( protest) movement itself, that is very tempting.

Paul Yip

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I have many reasons why not to do this. But I feel like out of duty and out of obedience to what the Lord has called me to do, and then, to use the talents that I just shared with you guys, the talents that God has given me to glorify him. I feel compelled.

Frank Pomeroy

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We are doing everything we can to deny terrorists the opportunity to glorify their crimes.

Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I also think Effie Lucille Nicholson Pharr's curious that this resolution -- which ostensibly is about honoring the' daughter' -- really seems to be an excuse to glorify the Confederate cause.

Nina Silber

Found on CNN
5 years ago

God, if you exist behind the Holy Scriptures then you have abandoned me. In war hundreds are killed and tortured and they are left there to rot and feed the vultures. And yet, we glorify our warriors. We give them laurel wreaths and honors. But all I get is torment, I cannot be humiliated this way. Give me an illness that will kill me fast. I cannot do it myself, I must go to heaven. Amen.

Elizabeth Báthory

added by regnumveritatis
5 years ago

Despite all of the data and experts at her disposal, [Black] chooses to blame ‘grocery store pornography’ for school shootings, and she doesn’t mean magazines that glorify guns.

Shannon Watts

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We understand there is a market for war memorabilia and that serious collectors are interested in items like this, while we don’t have an issue with Nazi-era automobiles like this going up for auction, we would not want to see the vehicle winding up in the hands of someone who would use it to glorify Hitler or the deeds of the Nazis. Ideally, we would prefer to see it housed in a museum, so that it could be understood in its proper context.

Ken Jacobson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It's not something where I'm like, let me glorify what I do in the bedroom. But I think I have a very healthy perspective on my sexuality, it's part of being an adult, and I'm still figuring out how to be one of those, too.

Selena Gomez

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Media and community members who publicize his name will only glorify his horrific actions, and eventually, this will only serve to inspire future shooters.

John Hanlin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I will not name the shooter, i will not give him the credit he probably sought prior to this horrific and cowardly act. You will never hear me mention his name. We would encourage media to avoid using it, to not repeat it. We encourage you not to glorify and create sensationalism for him. He in no way deserves this. Focus your attention on the victims, on the families, helping them get through this difficult time.

Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The decision is consistent with our longstanding policy that prohibits items that promote hatred, violence or glorify racial intolerance.

Johnna Hoff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our project is in no way whatsoever being undertaken in an attempt to glorify, romanticize or otherwise rationalize the historical legacy of (the pilots).

Kampei Shimoide

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

Bill McCollum

added by anonymous
10 years ago

That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Elie Wiesel

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

Lao-Tzu

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.

W. Edward Brown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

African Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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