How to Use exalted in a Sentence

exalted

adjective
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  • Attending as a cover star, Carpenter dressed for her exalted role in an appropriately glamorous Miu Miu dress.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2024
  • In other words, colonies were not projects in which people placed exalted hope.
    — Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • For a humble item, the cast-iron pan occupies an exalted place in many American homes.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Your ruling planet, Mars, enters its exalted sign of Capricorn on the 4th.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The wild likes to wring out all unnecessary claptrap and excess baggage until you’re left naked and exalted and clinging to the truth.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Perhaps this isn't surprising from a onetime exalted cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 16 June 2020
  • On the 4th, Mars enters its exalted sign of Capricorn and puts some communal fire power behind your efforts for the next six weeks.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Aspiring to the nobility of being a Steven, but can’t quite achieve this exalted state.
    — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But while Ashe was worthy, surely, of such exalted honor, the stadium should have been named for Althea Gibson.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Blanchette recounts the decision to shred most of them and to discard most of Mao’s ideas while preserving an exalted place for his image in Chinese life.
    — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Books made by artists themselves, as part of their work, occupied an even more exalted position.
    — Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • On the 4th, Mars enters its exalted sign of Capricorn and revives you with stamina and motivation.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2023
  • IIt was an exalted role because, after all, no one will buy products that aren’t appealing.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The failure of Obama’s presidency to live up to its exalted promise was a sober reminder of the difference between the ethos of a movement and the raison d’être of a mass party.
    — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021
  • What many seasoned travelers consider to be the most luxurious lodge in all of the US owes its exalted status to a few key factors.
    — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2023
  • England are not competitive but, of course, the Ashes still holds exalted status.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Which is what the path through the gallery will ultimately reveal — exalted states from different times, all coming together in the end in a brilliant, emerald space.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2021
  • How did this suave butcher, a compulsive liar who lived multiple lives, come to occupy such an exalted place in the medical field?
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The latest to join this exalted single malt category are two new entries in the distillery’s Timeless Series: 29- and 33-year-old whiskies that were aged in bourbon and sherry casks.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The group is elitist, claiming exalted status for itself and its leader, and the leader is considered a Messiah.
    — Virginia Pelley, Marie Claire, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The conventional wisdom is that U.S. Treasuries are the safest bonds, a claim that has given them an exalted status as the benchmark from which all other asset values may be measured.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • To put it in terms more consistent with the exalted language of the proceedings, the court seeks to comprehend what seems to be a profoundly irrational crime within the rigorous light of reason.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The president, setting aside the exalted status and electoral advantages of incumbency, must submit to the same pre-agreed rules as his challenger.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The reason for that, Field suggests, is that there’s something about the exalted nature of this music that leads the people who live everyday within its heady majesty to feel as if pleasure, in every realm, is their divine right.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Sep. 2022
  • For this reason, Daft Punk’s aesthetics remain exalted by artists of all stripes, even nonmusical ones.
    — Patrick Lyons, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Under the school’s exalted stone and spires are students lying and envying and pretending in a twisted garden of earthly delights.
    — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2023
  • His photographs of even the most exalted celebrities demonstrate that vibrancy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Inspiration for this dessert came from an exalted source, Helen Corbitt.
    — Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2020
  • By late June the most exalted would normally start displaying autumn and winter collections in shop windows.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • And just the ideas of persistence, perseverance, all the kind of exalted characteristics.
    — Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023

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