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Example sentences for "inspires"

Lexicographically close words:
inspirations; inspiratory; inspire; inspired; inspirer; inspireth; inspiring; inspirit; inspirited; inspiriting
  1. The characters in the plays of both authors are merely outlined; in neither are they real, complete human beings; and yet the power of genuine enthusiasm and lyric pathos inspires them with life.

  2. It guides and inspires the expressions from the time when the apostle landed at Perga.

  3. And the sense of co-operating with an eternal purpose of God inspires and strengthens him.

  4. A thorough monarchist, who noted that "when Sweden was turned into a republic it became weak," Frederick the Great preached a doctrine not different from that which inspires the speeches of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

  5. To natures like his, the magic of a name thus loved, fluttering aloft in the smoke of battle, becomes talismanic, and inspires almost superhuman heroism.

  6. This, too, he did entirely at his own expense, and with no other motive than such as an ardent search after truth inspires in ambitious minds.

  7. It is piety only that inspires nobility and greatness of soul.

  8. But he left behind him what was worth more than any endowment of money, a noble example, which still lives, and inspires the labourers who have come after him.

  9. You begin to feel the wondrous magnificence of the edifice in which you stand, and you give way to the admiration and awe with which it inspires you.

  10. It is rather a paralyzing awe, a freezing terror, like that with which his grim deity inspires the barbarian, which holds captive the strongest mind, and lays reason and conscience prostrate in the dust.

  11. This is particularly the case with cheerful music, which inspires in us bitterness and pain, satiety and home-sickness together, and forces us to sip again and again as at a sweetened draught of poison.

  12. Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it inspires us with a grateful mood towards them.

  13. Criticism, one-sided and unjust as well as intelligent criticism, gives so much pleasure to him who exercises it that the world is indebted to every work and every action that inspires much criticism and many critics.

  14. What is it which in this building inspires the veneration and affection it commands?

  15. Miss Matthews is a wonderful portrait, and the vanity which inspires every one of the actions of that passionate, unscrupulous lady, the color as it were which runs through the whole of the picture is touched with a master's hand.

  16. Good is that force within us which inspires men to acts of conformity and subservience.

  17. He dwells in them, and inspires them, till they are all alive with the very life of God.

  18. And so to-day the Holy Spirit inspires men who receive Him to use the Scriptures to awaken, convict, and save men.

  19. A mighty man inspires and trains other men to be mighty.

  20. They then rattled their shields with their clubs, a proceeding which usually inspires terror; but Moloka remarked, "It is not the first time we have heard shields rattled.

  21. It is the sight of shields, or guns that inspires terror.

  22. I know not if it would be wise to accept your ladyship's polite invitation," Stobart answered, "though we are grateful for the kindness that inspires it.

  23. In this manner the humble paguro, carrying upon his back his tower crowned with formidable batteries, inspires terror in the gigantic beasts of the deep.

  24. She was so kind to him; a woman is always adorable to a man in whom she inspires love, even when she seems not to share it.

  25. It is the gospel that inspires the hope of acceptance.

  26. He inspires us to pray, but the act of prayer is our own.

  27. A cold in the head inspires pity neither in the heart of man nor in that of woman, and sneezing is fatal if the lady possesses the slightest particle of humour.

  28. Their very dress inspires respect in all alike, high and low.

  29. All that inspires thy voice of love, Or speaks in thy unclosing eyes, Or through thy frame doth burn or move, Or think or feel, awake, arise!

  30. So lovely seemed That landscape, and of pure, now purer air, Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair.

  31. He inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts then hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes In grains as countless as the sea side sands The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth.

  32. Oh, their conscience or their modesty inspires them well, when it bids them not meddle with spiritual things!

  33. The rapture of my heart inspires you with only one desire--that of changing this rapture into despair.

  34. It is alike honorable to the heart which feels and that which inspires it!

  35. There is no pestilence, no leprosy, which inspires so much horror in an Englishman as that which is vulgar.

  36. In the eyes of sensible persons, nothing inspires less interest than a young inconsistent woman, and an unchaste woman who neglects her duties.

  37. May we, Colonel, meet again under happier auspices, when I may be permitted to express to you all the sympathy with which your frank and loyal character inspires me.

  38. The "day" in which unmingled gladness inspires our songs has not yet dawned, fair as are the many days which Jehovah has made.

  39. The thought that inanimate nature will share in the joy of renovated humanity inspires many glowing prophetic utterances, eminently those of Isaiah--as, e.

  40. On one of these occasions Indra inspires him to continue on his journey by telling him that the krita was now auspicious; using the names of dice afterwards applied to the four ages.

  41. Yet still the attack has failed, and that failure, while it dispirits the Patriot Army, inspires the Rebel Army with renewed courage.

  42. It is the fairest of the Muses who inspires me: I will be clearer than an oracle, and my precepts will traverse the centuries.


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