DIGNIFY in a Sentence

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81 example sentences for DIGNIFY, such as:
1. The farmhouse is dignified by the great elm around it.
2. Norwegian Anna, always dignified, looked at her reprovingly.
3. He dignified a small collection of books by calling it a library.
4. Everything about this old man was in keeping with his dignified manner.
5. The defeated candidate gave a dignified speech in which he congratulated his rival.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DIGNIFY
dignify
 v.  raise the status of
 v.  confer dignity or honor upon
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  The white house reared its tall columns before her, seeming to withdraw with dignified aloofness from her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  In the seventh week, there came a telegram from Colonel Hampton himself, and then a letter, a kind, dignified letter of condolence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  And should a gentleman be so ill bred as to indicate an interest in her, she must freeze him with a dignified but well-chosen reference to her dead husband.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Then he had kissed his father, with a dignified affectionate embrace that showed the strong quiet feeling that lay between them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  The old portraits on the walls had been dignified and gracious and had looked down upon guests with an air of mellowed hospitality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  "I don't want your money," she began, trying to be coldly dignified.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  Soon she was a familiar sight on Atlanta's streets, sitting in her buggy beside the dignified, disapproving old darky driver, a lap robe pulled high about her, her little mittened hands clasped in her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  Ashley began to read the prayers and all heads bowed as his resonant, beautifully modulated voice rolled out the brief and dignified words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
9  Sometimes he listened with dignified interest to details of her businesses, nodding approval at her sagacity, and at other times he called her somewhat dubious tradings scavenging, highway robbery and extortion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  He had never heard her call him anything except "Cap'n Butler," and her conduct toward him had been dignified but cold.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
11  Mrs. Kennicott had a hushed and delicate breeding which dignified her woodeny over-scrubbed cottage with its worn hard cushions in heavy rockers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  They were like the Sunday-afternoon mob starting at monkeys in the Zoo, poking fingers and making faces and giggling at the resentment of the more dignified race.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  Everything about this old man was in keeping with his dignified manner.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
14  Norwegian Anna, always dignified, looked at her reprovingly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
15  She laughed and bantered him a little, remembering too late that she should have been dignified and reserved.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
Example Sentence:
1  It was this: "Pretty thin -- as long a dream as that, without any mistakes in it!" What a hero Tom was become, now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.
2  He was proud and dignified; he refused to be subservient to anyone.
3  The farmhouse is dignified by the great elm around it.
4  Sir William had the ability to conduct proceedings in a dignified manner without ever becoming stuffy.
5  The defeated candidate gave a dignified speech in which he congratulated his rival.
6  He dignified a small collection of books by calling it a library.