EDIFY in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for EDIFY, such as:

1. They tried to edify the child with music.
2. Travel is an edifying experience , especially for young people.
3. This edifying spectacle was the final event of the Governor's ball.
4. He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he addressed an edifying exhortation to them.
5. She said the count had died as she would herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying.

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 Meanings and Examples of EDIFY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
edify
 v.  instruct or correct, especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement
Classic Sentence:
1  I do not suppose the situation my friend Mrs Rooke is in at present, will furnish much either to interest or edify me.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  It is possible," said Morcerf; "my father has in his study a genealogical tree which will tell you all that, and on which I made commentaries that would have greatly edified Hozier and Jaucourt.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
3  There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
4  This edifying spectacle was the final event of the Governor's ball.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  She said the count had died as she would herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV
6  He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he addressed an edifying exhortation to them.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
7  The sound of our pens going refreshed us exceedingly, insomuch that I sometimes found it difficult to distinguish between this edifying business proceeding and actually paying the money.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
8  Topsy was cited, and had up before all the domestic judicatories, time and again; but always sustained her examinations with most edifying innocence and gravity of appearance.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  But peasants from the neighbouring country were not refused admittance; for it was the pride of Beaumanoir to render the edifying spectacle of the justice which he administered as public as possible.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  Although his purpose was to edify and not to entertain his audience, many of his listeners were amused rather than enlightened.
2  They tried to edify the child with music.
3  Travel is an edifying experience , especially for young people.