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Example sentences for "uplifting"

Lexicographically close words:
uplandish; uplands; uplift; uplifted; uplifter; uplifts; upmost; upon; upone; uponne
  1. She has consecrated her time, wealth and character to the uplifting of fallen people, and by her devotion to Christianity and her liberality has won thousands of friends throughout the country.

  2. Unconnected with church or other organization, but aided by an angel band, a Christ love, great charity, force of character that knew not fear where duty called, she has worked for the uplifting of the fallen.

  3. The leader in such an uplifting movement as the Sunday school must have clean hands and a pure heart.

  4. Straightway a handful of dry dust she brings, Then thrice uplifting high a brazen urn, Pours a three-fold libation on the corpse.

  5. The title of the work with which she began her task of uplifting our masses was "Gaskell's Compendium of Forms," a meritorious production of amazing and quite infinite scope, elegantly illustrated.

  6. Spend evenings and afternoons in company, it is uplifting and not wearying and live a different life at home.

  7. It was not produced by the repeated superposition of scoriae and lava cast out or flowing from a central source, but by the uplifting of strata previously horizontal.

  8. The latter to a mild-looking gentleman who was poising a book in one hand and inquiring the price with the uplifting of his eyebrows.

  9. The mission, though fraught with many sorrows, is divine and soul-uplifting to the subject.

  10. True, Florence; how many seek the glorious art, not for its uplifting power, but as a means of display.

  11. As he wound his way slowly up the long, shady avenue, that led to his home, another love came to his bosom, and transfused his being with a different, but equally uplifting life.

  12. It seemed to her that the woman was weighing heavily upon the man, holding him to earth rather than in any way uplifting him to heaven in his aspirations.

  13. Then in the times succeeding, in many parts of the world, degrading forces were more effective than uplifting so that the mountains became lower, and the seas extended farther over the continents.

  14. Hence arrogance, which is an uplifting of self above oneself, is a kind of pride; yet it is not the same as boasting, but is very often its cause.

  15. True religion looks upon as peaceful those wars that are waged not for motives of aggrandizement, or cruelty, but with the object of securing peace, of punishing evil-doers, and of uplifting the good.

  16. In the same way spiritual uplifting is promised to humility, not that humility alone merits it, but because it is proper to it to despise earthly uplifting.

  17. Now on the part of the conversion, there is no reason for pride being the greatest of sins, because uplifting which pride covets inordinately, is not essentially most incompatible with the good of virtue.

  18. Rid yourself of the error and see the uplifting you will feel at once.

  19. So it is with a perverted appetite for sex stories and thrills--you won't content yourself with uplifting literature but demand more and more of the degrading kind!

  20. The dying day, the peaceful surroundings, the calm sheet of water, the mild air, combined to impart a tone of thoughtful, uplifting meditation.

  21. To this end, all uplifting and stimulating forces, whether secular or religious, are made to conspire in their impact upon the person whose weal is sought.

  22. Her gestures, the tricks of her voice, the uplifting of her eyebrows and shoulders--all helped to give life and colour to the little sketch she expounded.

  23. Captain Granet asked, looking down at her with a faintly humorous uplifting of the eyebrows.

  24. Be near me when all else is from me drifting Earth, sky, home's pictures, days of shade and shine, And kindly faces to my own uplifting The love which answers mine.

  25. That he who sees first the Great New Truth, the Blessing that has been withheld because of no one to see it, the Great Invention uplifting through one man all men into a new world, that it is he who must suffer.

  26. Those who hear his voice and have the spirit of obedience go to the ends of the earth, and make any sacrifice that may be required for the uplifting of fallen men.

  27. That which is expended in the uplifting of the race shall be our eternal reward.

  28. Other great evils stood before the faces of those who labored for the uplifting of the race.

  29. I mean that when the saving and uplifting god approaches, the preliminary rites of the Mysteries take place.

  30. For apart from the explanation which says that light accompanies the gods, we must believe that the uplifting rays(863) of the sun are nearly akin to those who yearn to be set free from generation.

  31. We have already noted the fact that the uplifting of mountains and of the table-lands about them, which appears to have been the basis of continental growth, has been due to strains in the rocks sufficiently strong to disturb the beds.

  32. It is when the surface has been uplifted to a considerable height, and especially when, as is usually the case, this uplifting action has been associated with mountain-building, that valleys take on their accented and picturesque form.

  33. Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed; So wills its King, who hath forbid The uplifting of the fringèd lid; And thus the sad Soul that here passes Beholds it but through darkened glasses.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uplifting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advancement; apotheosis; ascent; assumption; beatification; deification; edification; elevation; erection; exaltation; exalted; exhilarating; height; raising; rearing; upheaval; uplift; uplifting