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Example sentences for: edifying
How can you use “edifying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
"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."
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.
Nicholas Bornoff, in his book Pink Samurai , cites some perhaps edifying advertising copy from a catalogue for bar and club furniture:
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.