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How to use ennoble in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb

Ennoble means to bestow with nobility, honour or grace. Example: “We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles.”

Examples of ennoble by meaning

verbTo bestow with nobility, honour or grace.

  • We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles.2020, Francine Prose, “Has Trump learned anything from Covid-19? Absolutely not”, in The Grauniad
  • There was no shortage of dropped jaws when news came through about the appointment of the recently ennobled Lord Peter Hendy as rail minister.2024 July 24, Christian Wolmar, “Rail Minister Hendy has a tough job... but the skills to succeed”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 44

More sentences with ennoble

  • Somewhere, somehow, there had to be something more ennobling than that.2005, Martin Pilcher, chapter 12, in The Banana Skin Tango, [United Kingdom]: Aardvark-Zap Publishing, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry cocky
  • Their proportion remained largely unchanged over centuries despite the caseless arrival of thousands from the more ennobled parts of the country.2016, Patrick O'Flanagan, Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500–1900. From the entry ennobled
  • When the childmind is protected by an ennobled adultmind, the childmind is free to play, and wonder, and live in innocence.2010, True Blue Indigo, A Personal Aristocracy, page 65. From the entry childmind
  • Also, the poetic art can be applied very usefully because the human being can also be very ennobled through fair prejudices.2002, Johann Gottfried Herder, Michael N. Forster, Herder: Philosophical Writings, page 296. From the entry ennobled
  • It's a fine, ennobling thing, is poverty.1938, James Bridie, The Last Trump, Constable, page 29. From the entry scrunt
  • It is not a very ennobling voice, the voice of Worldly Prudence; but it is, perhaps, none the less practically influential on that account.2012, Jerome Klapka, Carolyn Oulton, Weeds, page 53. From the entry ennobling
  • Can such a child be ennobled by the passage of time, his struggles granted retroactive gravitas and his childish confusions rearticulated with adult clarity?2007 April 15, Liesl Schillinger, “The Night Train to Bucharest”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022. From the entry retroactive
  • He checks criticism by multiplying the cause for embarrassment and taking it on himself; and this brings the act into the structure of an ennobling chivalric deed.2010, C. Stephen Jaeger, Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility, page 140. From the entry ennobling

Meaning of ennoble

  1. verb To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.
  2. verb To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing.
  3. verb To inarch.

Full definition of ennoble

Questions about ennoble in a sentence

How do you use ennoble in a sentence?
Ennoble is used as a verb. For example: “We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles.”
What is a short sentence with ennoble?
“It's a fine, ennobling thing, is poverty.”
What does ennoble mean?
Ennoble means to bestow with nobility, honour or grace.

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