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Example sentences for "embolden"

Lexicographically close words:
embodies; embodiment; embodiments; embody; embodying; emboldened; emboldens; emboli; embolic; embolism
  1. And if indeed Weston's men have angered the Neponsets to the pitch we fear, the news of this Virginia success will embolden them to undertake the same revenge.

  2. The news she hath to-day may embolden thee to ask again.

  3. But I would venture to embolden such, and to tell them that they may still admire a ruin, and do so without fear or self-judgment.

  4. There was no Eshcol brought out of Canaan to Ur to embolden Abraham to take the journey; but "this is the fruit of it" was said to Rebecca in the servants and camels and gold and jewels--a branch with a cluster rich and abundant indeed.

  5. As there is in God a sufficiency of power to uphold, so there is in him also a sufficiency of comfort and goodness to embolden us: I mean communicative comfort and goodness.

  6. So you see we shall, by lacing that juice, not only embolden him to propose to Miss Bassett, but also put him so into shape that he will hold that Market Snodsbury audience spellbound.

  7. You attempted to push him over the line by rigging him out in a Mephistopheles costume and sending him off to a fancy-dress ball, your view being that scarlet tights would embolden him.

  8. If, then, the aid be anywhere, so as to embolden the perpetrator, to afford him hope or confidence in his enterprise, it is the same as though the person stood at his elbow with his sword drawn.

  9. So that a great portion of original genius was necessary to embolden a man to write faithfully to Nature upon any affecting subject if it belonged to a class of composition in which Pope had furnished examples.

  10. This indulgence, and others like it, will embolden him to aim at passing himself off as the Delegate of Opposition, and the authorized pleader of their cause.

  11. It was urged that the Empress, like another Maria Theresa, should remain with her son in the city, to assure the populace by her presence, and embolden the defense.

  12. Love and condescension doth rather embolden them, and therefore they must be restrained with the bridle of authority.

  13. I bestowed some equivocal glances upon him, and used certain passages in my part that bore some analogy to our situation to embolden him and induce him to declare himself.

  14. Certain municipal officers make some slight efforts to quiet the assailants; others, on the contrary, do what they can to embolden and excite them.

  15. Moreover, the mask alone could embolden them; they thought that if the august victim were enveloped in a domino they need no longer dread that royal prestige which had more than once caused them to recoil.

  16. Time may do much,' said she; 'a longer and more free conversation with you may perhaps embolden me to make a full discovery of my face to you, as I have already done of my heart.

  17. Or rather, (for that is the only question,) shall these words embolden us to impeach the morality of Holy Writ?

  18. It is a grave question for lovers of the union whether the final destruction of the Missouri Compromise, and with it the spirit of all compromise, will or will not embolden and embitter each of these, and fatally increase the number of both.

  19. I think it is below, near the Astor House,' said he, with such an appearance of interest as to embolden me to mention what I was in search of.

  20. This will embolden the enemy to attack us at Manassas, where their suddenly acquired confidence will be snuffed out, or I am mistaken.

  21. It will only embolden the insidious enemy.

  22. These words still he spoke, To embolden the youths; the battle-scarred hero 170 Called on his comrades to conquer their foes; He no longer had strength to stand on his feet, .

  23. This will embolden thee; this will make thee wax stronger and stronger.

  24. It is excellent to embolden a man in the cause of God.

  25. Tis possible for a good man to do things that are bad; but let not his bad action embolden thee to run upon sin.

  26. He judged that the slightest appearance of timidity, on his part, would so embolden the savages as to expose him to great peril.

  27. He considered it a disgrace to the Spanish arms, and declared that it would only embolden the natives in all their future military operations.

  28. The master's neglect herein may embolden his servant to be bad, and may bring him too in short time to rags and a morsel of bread.

  29. Pray sir, said I, since you embolden me to talk on this important subject, may I not send my dear father and mother word of my happiness?

  30. And now you embolden me to become an humble petitioner, and that, as I ought, upon my knees, for the reinstating such of your servants, as I have been the unhappy occasion of their disobliging you.

  31. In short, he says every thing that may embolden me to look up, with pleasure, upon the generous author of my happiness.

  32. He did not claim to be free from fault; but even these books he could not revoke, for such a course would embolden the enemies of truth, and they would then take occasion to crush God’s people with still greater cruelty.

  33. But the Sunday argument, groundless as it was, served to embolden men in trampling upon the Sabbath of the Lord.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embolden" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abet; advocate; animate; assure; bolster; cheer; comfort; countenance; embolden; encourage; endorse; fortify; hearten; indorse; inspire; inspirit; nerve; reassure; strengthen; subscribe; support