Sample Sentences for
enshrine
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enshrine as in:  enshrined in the temple

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    I enshrined the skull of my father in a Fremen rock mound overlooking Harg Pass.  (source)
    enshrined = placed with honor in a special place
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    She was majestically tall and all but enshrined by a voluminous mane of golden blond hair.  (source)
    enshrined = surrounded and set apart as if placed in a special display
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    Owen rarely threw anything away; and something that my mother had given him would not only have been saved—it would have been enshrined!  (source)
    enshrined = put in a special place and treated with great respect
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    Your father had been a respected scholar and also devoted to the six virtues of Buddhism enshrined in this pagoda.  (source)
    enshrined = kept and honored in this sacred (place)
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    Its message may be misinterpreted, and the great idea it enshrines may be set back for two or three generations.  (source)
    enshrines = upholds and protects as a core ideal
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    Whenever an alumnus was killed in battle, it was traditional for his next of kin to return his ring to the museum for enshrinement upon black velvet in the macabre trophy case where these rings were proudly mounted.  (source)
    enshrinement = formal placement in a special display of honor
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    But as the sickness squeezed his lungs he began to hope that Jesus was more than just a fifty-cent mail-order picture enshrined in a dime-store frame on the hallway wall, that salvation was the trick card he could play right at the end and stay in the money.  (source)
    enshrined = set up like a sacred image in a special frame
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    More than three thousand people are entombed or enshrined within Westminster Abbey.  (source)
    enshrined = honored in a special or sacred place
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    This humble person is deeply sorry for your loss and hopes you will rest assured that the remains of both your honored parents are enshrined in the village cemetery.  (source)
    enshrined = laid to rest and honored in a special resting place
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    They caged it, funded and bronzed it, they enshrined it carefully in museums and plazas and memorial parks.  (source)
    enshrined = placed in protected displays to honor it
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    HERE ARE ENSHRINED THE LONGING OF GREAT HEARTS AND NOBLE THINGS THAT TOWER ABOVE THE TIDE, THE MAGIC WORD THAT WINGED WONDER STARTS, THE GARNERED WISDOM THAT HAS NEVER DIED.  (source)
    ENSHRINED = preserved and honored as something sacred
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    The tragic joke of human history is that on any of the altars men erected, it was always man whom they immolated and the animal whom they enshrined.  (source)
    enshrined = treated as sacred and put in a place of honor
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    In the process Paul laid out a comprehensive theory of poverty, of a world designed by the elites of all nations to serve their own ends, the pieces of the design enshrined in ideologies, which erased the histories of how things came to be as they were.  (source)
    enshrined = fixed in and treated as sacred
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enshrine as in:  enshrined in law

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Freedom of speech is enshrined in the First Amendment.
enshrined = protect as a core principle
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    They are working to enshrine women's rights within an Islamic framework.
    enshrine = formally establish and protect as a principle
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    South Africa was a police state with a constitution that enshrined inequality and an army that responded to nonviolence with force.  (source)
    enshrined = formally guaranteed
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    But the mythos goes on, and that which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos, and the new mythos under the first Ionian philosophers became transmuted into philosophy, which enshrined permanence in a new way.  (source)
    enshrined = honored and protected
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    Press freedom has also been enshrined by Parliament and is based on the socially and democratically acceptable restrictions of society, that is, the social contract that makes up the framework of a civilized society.  (source)
    enshrined = officially guaranteed and protected by law
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    The century has witnessed the defeat of Nazism by force of arms; but the erosion of the Soviet regimes was caused, among other things, by the sheer persistence, beneath the imposed ideological conformity, of cultural values and psychic resistances of a kind that these stories and images enshrine.†  (source)
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    Individuals must have supposed that they were cutting the letters of their names deep into everlasting tablets of brass, or enshrining their reputations forever in the hearts of their countrymen, while, as to fact, the affair would appear in printed reports under a meek and immaterial title.†  (source)
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    And I believe in a country that enshrines each of these three things, a country that offers nothing but the promise of being more fully human, and never guarantees its success.  (source)
    enshrines = formally protects and upholds these principles
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    Disposal of the dead, by decent cremation and enshrinement, is a greater moral responsibility to the Japanese than adequate care of the living.†  (source)
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    To prosper, a zoo needs parliamentary government, democratic elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, rule of law and everything else enshrined in India's Constitution.  (source)
    enshrined = formally protected or guaranteed
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    Enshrine mediocrity—and the shrines are razed.†  (source)
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    He could not accept the idea of enshrining reason as a religion, as desired by the philosophes.†  (source)
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    They were enshrined as official policy.  (source)
    enshrined = made official and protected
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    'Vice,' said the surgeon, replacing the curtain, 'takes up her abode in many temples; and who can say that a fair outside shell not enshrine her?'†  (source)
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