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Example sentences for "extolling"

Lexicographically close words:
extirpating; extirpation; extol; extoll; extolled; extols; extort; extorted; extorting; extortion
  1. Hart in his attractive rhetoric is now extolling in his history, "higher law doctrines.

  2. In exonerating and extolling the evolutionary processes, you are exonerating and extolling the works of the Devil!

  3. You are always extolling people of no merit: for who is this fellow, or what has he said or done out of the common?

  4. But side by side with his faults, he is fond of gazing on and extolling God’s gifts in his person.

  5. Being frustrated, therefore, in his expectations, Cin'eas returned to his master, extolling both the virtues and the grandeur of the Romans.

  6. This old soldier made no scruple of extolling the various achievements of his youth; indeed, his merits more than supported his ostentation.

  7. After extolling their strength and spirit, he proceeded to explain why it was that, with all their strength and spirit, they were constantly beaten.

  8. All these letters agree in extolling the courage and enthusiasm of the people.

  9. I shall never, O Bharata, bear these words that Bhishma had said in thy presence in relation to this matter, extolling the Pandavas, and censuring thee, O represser of foes!

  10. And at this moment, the gods fell extolling me.

  11. We have already seen that the Ode was early consecrated to the purposes of Religion, and that it was intended to raise Admiration by extolling the attributes of the Supreme Being.

  12. One gentleman had been extravagantly extolling Coleridge, until many present felt a little uncomfortable.

  13. Her poetry is addressed chiefly to her husband, and she never tires of extolling his many virtues.

  14. Back she then went to Ischia, where they had passed those earlier days together, and there, for seven years almost without interruption, she spent her time thinking of the dead lord of Pescara, and extolling him in her verse.

  15. On the other hand, the followers of Hillel were decidedly in favor of converting the heathen and were probably responsible for many Haggadic passages extolling the proselytes.

  16. So it happened that in mediaeval England French singers were to be heard extolling the glory of Saxon kings, while English singers told the deeds of Arthur, the arch-enemy of their race.

  17. Set at ease by Pugliano's example, who seems to have had the same veneration for the horse as his countryman Vinci, Sidney enters on his defence and does not restrain himself from extolling poetry beyond any product of the human mind.

  18. Extravagantly extolling anyone proceeds from a like source.

  19. She praised me everywhere, extolling my virtue to the highest and served me with extraordinary respect.

  20. Seeing this remarkable interposition in behalf of the poor animal, the sportsmen withdrew, highly extolling the virtue of the holy man who by his mantle could protect a beast from injury.

  21. Their chamber was full of people, with whom they talked, threatening them with the judgments of God, and extolling the happiness of their own sufferings.

  22. In extolling those who had fallen, Cicero dwells on two subjects; one appertaining to the glory of the heroes themselves, the other to the consolation of their friends and relatives.

  23. Still all these politicians concurred in extolling the "Constitution," though they differed so much as to what it was that they were praising.

  24. In the letter where this passage occurs the writer is extolling the dignity of presbyters, and is endeavouring to shew that they are very little inferior to bishops.

  25. They vied with each other in extolling her to the skies.

  26. Can she not utter a word without my extolling her wit, her shrewdness, her tact, her penetration, and the sweet tones of her voice?

  27. Christ remained only in the love of Donatus: these are the words of men extolling the glory of a man under the name of Christ, that the glory of Christ Himself may be diminished.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extolling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.