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Example sentences for "praise"

Lexicographically close words:
praier; praiers; praies; prairie; prairies; praised; praiser; praises; praiseth; praiseworthiness
  1. I'm Praxagoras' son by Philinna the fair, And I never asked praise that was owing elsewhere.

  2. Each day other men returned out of the past, fragments of the life which had gone before; brother artists arriving prepared to praise and staying to contemplate in amazement the rise of a master talent.

  3. Let us now praise the artificer and the workmaster Who is wakeful to finish his work.

  4. We have not ceased to praise the "good provider" or to esteem him highly who has a well-ordered home.

  5. The heart of her husband trusteth in her; Her children rise up and call her blessed; Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.

  6. Acol Court lies very isolated, well off the main Canterbury Road, and just for two days and a half Master Hymn-of-Praise Busy had contrived to hold his tongue.

  7. Yet of a surety, I mean to make an investigation of the affair as that old fool Hymn-of-Praise would say.

  8. And in asking for that chaste salute we may assume that Master Hymn-of-Praise was actuated with at least an equal desire to please Mistress Charity, to gratify his own wishes, and to effectually annoy Master Courage.

  9. The breeches and rough shirt of the smith hung over the arm of Hymn-of-Praise Busy; the dark stain on the shirt was plainly visible by the light of one of the lanterns.

  10. Master Hymn-of-Praise Busy, too, though unwilling to see a corpse, thought it his duty to help the law in investigating this mysterious crime.

  11. There was a cry of rage, followed by a cry of terror, then Master Hymn-of-Praise Busy with a terrific clatter of breaking boughs, fell in a heap upon the soft carpet of moss.

  12. Not far from the entrance to the forge, Boatfield saw petty-constable Pyot in close converse with Master Hymn-of-Praise Busy, butler to Sir Marmaduke.

  13. Hymn-of-Praise Busy broke in on her meditations.

  14. Much in the letters, nothing in the praise Qu.

  15. Nay, neuer paint me now, Where faire is not, praise cannot mend the brow.

  16. That euery one her owne hath garnished, With such bedecking ornaments of praise Ma.

  17. Onely for praise, and praise we may afford, To any Lady that subdewes a Lord.

  18. Do not curst wiues hold that selfe-soueraigntie Onely for praise sake, when they striue to be Lords ore their Lords?

  19. As I for praise alone now seeke to spill The poore Deeres blood, that my heart meanes no ill Boy.

  20. But most esteemed greatnesse, wil you heare the Dialogue that the two Learned men haue compiled, in praise of the Owle and the Cuckow?

  21. I will praise an Eele with the same praise Brag.

  22. He made her praise him for them, to his face, when he disclaimed their merit, and after his death, when he could not.

  23. They went on in an antiphony of praise till March said: "Really, I don't see what's left me but to strike for higher wages.

  24. The trust she had shown him, the praise she had given him, that crush of the hand: he hoped nothing, he formed no idea from it, but it all filled him with love that cast out the pain and shame he had been suffering.

  25. Dave Somers; and the rest of the watchers echoed the sentiment in various ways, even those who desired to see Whipple triumphant yielding their meed of praise for the performance.

  26. Thus was the reign of the spirit of evil abolished, and the mountain consecrated to the praise of Him who made the hills and the isles of the sea.

  27. O soul, O Diarmait, is it not wonderful that the senseless small creatures should praise God so sweetly in the dark, and in the light before the dark, while we are fain to lie warm and forget His praise?

  28. And these were the words he spoke to them: "Little birds, little sisters mine, much are you holden to God your Creator; and at all times and in every place you ought to praise Him.

  29. If life and strength be given us, thither we also shall climb, and praise God in the lofty places of the earth which He has made.

  30. Their ship is their garth, and cloister, and choir, wherein they praise God with full voices through all the hours from matins to compline.

  31. As well as I could," said the old man; "always enjoying a good thing when it came honestly within my reach; not forgetting to praise God for putting it there.

  32. It is something new, I hear--something in praise of the ladies.

  33. Such accusations as you can bring against me, will redound more to my credit than praise from such lips.

  34. My teacher had dismissed me with praise of my compositions and congratulations on my prizes.

  35. And you need not praise the little blue and red dresses if she gets them done; but I am sure she cannot," gloried Hannah Straight Tree.

  36. But she is so little she looks cute, and the visitors and school will laugh at her and praise her," said Cordelia Running Bird, undismayed.

  37. She will not praise you, for you are always very dumb in school.

  38. From all this it appears that, as a rule, the praise of posterity can only be gained at the cost of the praise of one's contemporaries, and vice versa.

  39. His name was Mollie Charane, which words interpreted are “Praise the Lord.

  40. I almost envy you," returned Mr Graham, "when I think how you will praise God one day.

  41. They give his measure; they denote his character: and, as praise is the shipwreck of historians, his preferences betray him more than his aversions.

  42. It became a rule of policy to praise the spirit when you could not defend the deed.

  43. I praise you, Siddhartha, after so many years of foolishness, you have once again had an idea, have done something, have heard the bird in your chest singing and have followed it!

  44. Trevanion's name was bandied to and fro, struck from praise to blame, high and low, as a shuttlecock.

  45. The coach will be by in five minutes: you can spend that time in hearing the old woman praise the Hogtons and abuse me.

  46. And hark you, sir, never care three straws for praise or blame,--leather and prunella!

  47. Praise won by dissimulation and deceit was empty, anyhow, and did he escape this once, henceforth the world should know J.

  48. But before the other could explain, Berkeley Fresno, who had sunk weakly into a chair at Larry's extravagant praise of his rival, afforded a diversion.

  49. I might offer my man a cigar, and praise his show a bit, and then tell him how I want to tell the world all about him; how I want to see how they live, not so briefly, you understand.

  50. It is, we know, a simple adaptation from the ritual of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, but it has had from many commentators even such praise for "originality" as M.

  51. Schweitzer could not forgo an exordium in praise of the "German temperament" which had so wonderfully kept the discussion going.

  52. Such teaching is, in point of fact, quite undeserving of praise for "spirituality," inasmuch as it in effect recommends benevolence as a way of securing eternal life.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "praise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acclaim; accolade; acknowledgment; adore; adulation; apotheosis; applaud; applause; benediction; blandishment; bless; bouquet; bunkum; cajole; celebrate; citation; cite; cognizance; commend; compliment; congratulation; credit; crown; decorate; deification; deify; emblazon; encomium; eulogize; eulogy; exalt; exaltation; extol; fawning; flatter; flattery; glorification; glorify; glory; grace; grease; hail; homage; hommage; honor; hymn; idolatry; idolize; incense; keep; kudos; magnification; magnify; mention; oil; ovation; paean; palaver; panegyric; praise; puff; rave; recognition; recommend; recommendation; salute; slaver; soap; sycophancy; thanks; thanksgiving; tout; tribute; trumpet; wheedle; wheedling