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How to use extol in a sentence

30 example sentences · verb

Extol means to praise; to make high. Example: “The virtues of national service, including military service, were extolled in the evening's presentations.”

Examples of extol by meaning

verbTo praise; to make high.

  • Maimonides, the 12th century scholar, rabbi and physician also extolled the health benefits of wine in moderation.2022 January 22, Jonathan Reiner, “If you think that glass of wine is good for you, it’s time to reconsider”, in CNN
  • In the meantime, I have an opportunity of extolling the virtues of his Liverpool & Manchester Railway Atlas, which appeared last year and has already had its second print-run.2022 February 23, Barry Doe, “Liverpool & Manchester Atlas is excellent value”, in RAIL, number 951, page 60
  • Instead, we retreat into our gender-segregated media spaces where the manosphere extols stoicism and the womanosphere celebrates emotional vulnerability.2024 April 17, David Sasaki, “The emotionally immature lives of men and women”, in The Time Capsule

More sentences with extol

  • The virtues of national service, including military service, were extolled in the evening's presentations.From the entry military service
  • She extols the virtues of veganism with missionary zeal.From the entry zeal
  • A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders.2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 61. From the entry right
  • So says the inspirational Kenyan proverb extolling the power of Unity.2014 August 17, Morgana West, “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable”, in Glaston Centre, UK, retrieved 13 May 2017. From the entry sticks in a bundle are unbreakable
  • Happy Lake was named by three pioneering bachelors extolling their emotional state in their femaleless society.2007, Craig Romano, Day Hiking, Olympic Peninsula. From the entry femaleless
  • This artisanship or craftspersonship was the sort of Enlightenment activity extolled by Diderot in the eighteenth century.2001: Stephen Gudeman, The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture, page 115 (Blackwell Publishing). From the entry craftspersonship
  • Theagenes was extolled to the skies for having welded the novel team into a hippotaur.1999 January 29, Heliodorus (of Emesa.), edited by Moses Hadas, Heliodorus: An Ethiopian Romance, reprint edition, University of…. From the entry hippotaur
  • Nietzsche could not, for instance, accuse Aristotle of preaching a morality of pity, nor of extolling humility.1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection…. From the entry megalopsychos
  • His friends surround him and attend to it that he is duly and steadfastly extolled.1909 May, Lionel Josaphare, “The Literary Lion”, in The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress, volume XXI, number 5…. From the entry lionism
  • In the bunkrooms, adorned with family photos and a needlepoint extolling the virtues of firefighters — respected, proud, dependable — Mr.2007 June 21, Shaila Dewan, “City Mourns Firefighters and 9 Lost on the Job: Fathers, Mentors, Friends”, in New York Times. From the entry bunkroom
  • Goatwalking in North America is advocated by Jim Corbett, who extols the virtues of seasonal, nomadic, pedestrian pastorality, attracting the disenchanted.1997, Paul Shepard, The Others: How Animals Made Us Human, page 302. From the entry goatwalking
  • They denounced plutocrats and extolled bums, reviled lime-lighters and scorned the fakirs who smoodged for the support of the wage slaves.1995, Verity Burgmann, Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia, page 29. From the entry smoodge
  • And some Europeans have historically been "pro-American," philiacs eager to extol their dream country and to go and live there.1991, Marcus Cunliffe, In search of America: transatlantic essays, 1951-1990, page 399. From the entry philiac
  • He comically extols the antisociable virtues of garlic and the lachrymatory effects of peeling onions, useful for elegiac poets.1972, Manchester Studies in the History of Art, number 1, page 249. From the entry antisociable
  • One of them extolled domestic gas: a smiling toy paraclete called Mr Therm presided over a sort of warm Holy Family.1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby. From the entry paraclete
  • Many brought presents of roast chickens and pigs, swinging the fowls by their legs as they extolled their succulence.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 138. From the entry succulence
  • Chinese state media has pressed pause on the US-bashing, releasing a raft of commentaries extolling the merits of resetting relations and working on co-operation.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC. From the entry press pause
  • This style of support is highly ritualistic and is typified by choreographies of flags, banners, pyrotechnics and chants that extol the virtues of their club.2015 February 10, Udo Merkel, Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles, Springer, →ISBN, page…. From the entry choreography
  • This was something I could get behind; a song simply extolling the youthful value of keeping the bass bumping in your vehicle.2010 March 14, Moya Bailey, “They Aren’t Talking about Me …”, in Crunk Feminist Collective, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2022. From the entry misogynoir
  • I'm gonna make her a Daniel doll and spend the weekend extolling the virtues of teamness and Danielness and Toe'kraness and Jackness to her.2001 June 24, Lisa, “Re: Daniels Parents Death!”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1 (Usenet), message-ID <9h3v12$c0d6s$3@ID-56231.news.dfncis.de>. From the entry Danielness
  • Devotees recite texts or prayers extolling the exceptional qualities of the deity such as omnipotence, omnicognizance and omniscience in physical imagery during worship.1998, Natubhai Shah, “Supernormal Forms of Knowledge”, in “Jain Logic”, in Jainism: The World of Conquerors, volume 2, Brighton, East…. From the entry omnicognizance
  • The respective beauties of Kuei-lin and Yang-shuo have been debated by visitors over the centuries, some extolling one and some the other.[1977, Yee Chiang, “Kuei-lin and Yang-shuo”, in China Revisited, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 153, 155. From the entry Yangshuo
  • YouTuber and sister traditionalist Lacey Lynn commented on this video, extolling Faucheux and Collett because they had “red pilled me and I owe yall so much.2019, Alexandra Minna Stern, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate. From the entry YouTuber
  • A recent editorial and tips in this journal have extolled the virtues of making clear presentations using computer presentation software, in particular the commercial software PowerPoint (Microsoft, Redmond, WA).2002, Jeff Fessler, “Free "PowerPointing"”, in American Journal of Roentgenology. From the entry powerpoint
  • What is known as his Utengi is a kind of battle-chant, extolling his own prowess and taunting his enemies, quite in the fashion of a Norse kempery-man.1928, “Native Poetry in East Africa”, in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, volume 1, number 3, pages 348-57. From the entry kempery-man
  • Certain forms of liberal theology extol the fatherhood of God but (like Islam) reduce Jesus to the status of a prophet and regard the Holy Spirit as an impersonal force.2009, Timothy George, Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?. From the entry Jesusanity
  • While not advocating dudism or extolling sensational ornamentation, we do stand for presentability and civilized appearance in the classroom and in the dining-room, on the campus and on the streets.1915 April 3, “The College Tramp”, in The Notre Dame Scholastic. From the entry dudism

Meaning of extol

  1. verb To praise; to make high.

Full definition of extol

Questions about extol in a sentence

How do you use extol in a sentence?
Extol is used as a verb. For example: “The virtues of national service, including military service, were extolled in the evening's presentations.”
What is a short sentence with extol?
“She extols the virtues of veganism with missionary zeal.”
What does extol mean?
Extol means to praise; to make high.

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