Sample sentences for SANCTIFICATION

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a religious ceremony in which something is made holy

Some worry that capitalism sanctifies greed. Others think capitalism can direct greed to help the community.

He banished them, consigned them to the fire, not to desecrate them but to sanctify us.
Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
The year before I had concentrated too much on opening a window to the outside world and had failed to illuminate and sanctify the island around them.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
I avoid gatherings of these women, walking as I do in fear of being sanctified, or ese burned at the stake.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Distance sanctifies both.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
MY BETH Sitting patient in the shadow Till the blessed light shall come, A serene and saintly presence Sanctifies our troubled home.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
"We must sanctify it in blood," the telkhine said.
Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
The poor little thing imagined that she was going for a brief outing before that marriage of which he talked and which was to seal and sanctify it.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
But I thought that our marriage might be a sanctification for us both.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
It was sanctified to such use of man, now we sanctify it to God.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
He had to tell someone or die, or else tell the truth, and so the relief he obtained was sanctified within the domestic rituals of love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
So help me every spirit sanctified, As I have spoken for you all my best, And stood within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech!
William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice
He carefully combined the suffumigation chemicals that he would later ignite to sanctify the air.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Blood dripped from his chin as he cut down the net, sullying and sanctifying his prize.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
Sanctify the ground with the touch of thy foot, that we may eat the dirt and be ennobled!
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
This ground sanctified by blood.
Dalton Trumbo -- Johnny Got His Gun
It was a street populated by old wood frame houses, many of them used by fraternities and sororities, but it was no longer the sanctified quad.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
They are sanctified religious and very good to me.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

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