Example sentences for: edifying

How can you use “edifying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Had he combined with his vast learning a light and playful style, he would not more effectually have strewn the field with the slain, but he would have made the process as delightful as it was edifying.

  • it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). (See David Remnick's review in Slate and click here for an excerpt.)

  • Saying that taxes would be lower if taxes were lower is true, but not edifying.

  • "In a land where movement is virtue, where the echo of heels clicking rapidly on pavement is inordinately blest, it is a grand, defiant, and edifying gesture to lie down for six months."

  • Nicholas Bornoff, in his book Pink Samurai , cites some perhaps edifying advertising copy from a catalogue for bar and club furniture:


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