How to Use edification in a Sentence

edification

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  • Few in the tech industry are sidling up to Trump for their own edification.
    — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 10 Jan. 2017
  • For decades, hit records have offered instruction and edification, lessons from the Book of Love, step-by-step guides to dance crazes.
    — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Was this for her own self-edification or was there good intent?
    — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2017
  • Those who would inquire fruitfully need to be able to tell the difference, not only for their own edification, but for the good of all.
    — Marcello Fiocco, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2020
  • This book can serve as edification, or inspiration for which ballparks to tour on the next long road trip.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Today, the world stage is filled with mighty tech titans and autocrats who are in the process of being humbled for the moral edification of we mortals.
    — William Falk, The Week, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Intended for the edification and instruction of the trade, the prints are capable of holding the attention of both eye and mind.
    — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But to eat like one — to recognize the differences from Chinese food — is an act of edification.
    — Erica Cheng, Chron, 10 Aug. 2021
  • So each year — for their own edification — 5% of the Legislature (or six out of the 120 lawmakers) should have their homes condemned.
    — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
  • The thinking class in the U.S. has always been of the opinion that the majority of Americans need edification.
    — Elizabeth Powers, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Freer procured Egyptian objects in part to compare them, for his own edification, with ones from East Asia.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • This would become a recurring theme for Cornell, who wrote often of his own self-edification and of trying to be a better man.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 18 May 2017
  • But with their pantries full, self-isolators turned to fiction for escapism and edification.
    — The Economist, 25 Nov. 2020
  • For your own edification, Miss Manners assures you that snooping is a transgression, but so is offering to give a present back.
    — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Among the later services was the provision of library boxes that included two or three dozen volumes and which were loaned to outbound ships for the enjoyment and edification of the crew.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Feeders have long been a popular way to connect with nature and draw in native species and passing migrants for our edification.
    — Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The site was hardly a Gateway Arch, but the quaint enthusiasm of its preservation aims offered some bite-size edification.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Not every moment has to be for edification and self-improvement.
    — Josh Gondelman, SELF, 27 Dec. 2022
  • They were built with the belief that cultural treasures belong not to the elites but to all citizens and should be available for everyone’s edification and enjoyment.
    — Eric Gibson, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Ditto the function of art as a source of both entertainment and edification, basic desires and complex emotions.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But the tale’s not sufficient to move the audience from education to edification.
    — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2017
  • Actors sweat and strain and suffer, really and truly, for viewers’ pleasure and edification.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
  • The other, larger room is spacious, contemporary and the Indian writings on the wall are translated for your edification.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Nowhere else in the world is symphonic music so canonized as an instrument of public edification and a symbol of civic pride; in the European capitals, the center of musical life has always been the opera house.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • This seems to be part of an administration-wide effort to treat the nation’s largest state not as an object of loving persuasion but as a target, and as a demon-figure for the edification and excitement of people in Trump Country.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The only way to protect ourselves against the damage caused by Facebook is to start relying on other information sources for joy and edification -- like parks, hobbies, friends and legitimate news sources.
    — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Reading here is not embraced as mere escape, nor glorified as edification.
    — Nina Renata Aron, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • This was not for any tactical advantage, but rather for Brown’s personal edification.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2022
  • For their edification, the company published booklets of simple instructions and recipes.
    — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Simply put, for my personal edification but also for the benefit of the congregation.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019

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