How to Use uplift in a Sentence

uplift

1 of 2 verb

• The juice’s fresh notes of pear and rhubarb uplift any deep, earthy scent.
  — Kayla Greaves, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023
• Please keep us in your prayers and uplifted in the Lord.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2023
• Home fragrance is supposed to uplift your space and not break the bank.
  — Jamie Fischer, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
• Faith should be a tool to uplift, to support, and to nurture; it should not be used as a weapon.
  — Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2022
• He’s done nothing but believe in me and uplift me through all my good and all my bad.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 31 Mar. 2023
• Despite the progress that has been made, the singer says a lot more work needs to be done to uplift women in today’s world.
  — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2023
• My objective as an artist is to be a traitor to that culture, not to uplift it.
  — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2022
• Below, take in the bold tropical plants that uplift your decor and your mood.
  — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 7 July 2023
• There are plenty of great accounts to add to your follow list to help uplift and boast your mood.
  — Ebony Williams, ajc, 4 Apr. 2022
• How a tech billionaire’s bid to uplift the poor became a windfall for the rich.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• Semi-melancholy, this Barry Manilow song aims to uplift the spirits of those who may feel down at the end of the year.
  — Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 27 Nov. 2022
• This smart city uplifts research and knowledge, as well as the use of new technologies.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2023
• The goal is to collectively affirm the lives and uplift the voices of Black students.
  — Breccan F. Thies, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• But what fragrance both uplifts and fills Somer with envy?
  — Kristin Limoges, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Essence cover stars show us how to ‘Do It’ by being the example of sisters who uplift each other.
  — Admin, Essence, 23 Aug. 2022
• It’s a super-emotional show, even without the sad songs, because the will to uplift never quits.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2022
• At that time modest seismicity picked up, paired with the slow flexing—uplift and sinking—of the ground.
  — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
• On this Tu Bishvat, may you be uplifted by all that trees provide us and resolve to find a way to return those gifts.
  — Judy Berlfein, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
• Chernov then called on the Hollywood A-listers in the room to use their voices to uplift the voices of the Ukrainian people.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• Through Ire Aje’s designs, Gray seeks to inspire and uplift Black women, fostering a sense of pride in their roots.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 14 Dec. 2023
• Adding or refreshing art in spaces can often uplift the lives of folks who use the spaces.
  — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
• This citrus scent will uplift your mood and those around you without overpowering the room.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2024
• Now, her mission to uplift other thrifters and vendors through 414Flea has been her biggest success to date.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2022
• Still, others prioritize speaking out in hopes of uplifting their peers to do the same.
  — Khadeejah Khan, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
• The music was about uplifting and strengthening the self-esteem of Black people in this country.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2023
• Nextdoor is upgrading their ad game with Nextdoor Ads to uplift small and medium business owners.
  — Gene Marks, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
• Ralph has long believed in the transformative power of the arts and used her fame to connect with and uplift her community.
  — Evette Dionne, SELF, 21 Mar. 2024
• Hakki firmly believes that success should be shared and used as a platform to uplift others.
  — Nick Kasmik, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
• Britain has a very big problem with supporting and uplifting its Black British talent.
  — Alexis P. Williams, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Pac-12 should make a hard run at Gonzaga as a non-football member to uplift the men’s basketball product.
  — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2023

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uplift

2 of 2 noun

• Black banks have been held up as the secret to racial uplift since the end of the Civil War.
  — Victor Luckerson, Wired, 5 Oct. 2021
• That would be a 23% uplift in a little more than a year.
  — Danny Lee, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• While a couple of games lost a frame or two, half of the titles saw some sort of uplift.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 17 Mar. 2021
• There’s a surfeit of acting talent in them, and a dearth of uplift.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• By trying to cram in too many details of a long, shaggy saga, the busy show strains for uplift.
  — Misha Berson, Variety, 14 June 2022
• But the committee’s mission isn’t to uplift, but to warn.
  — Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• This would help further a core goal of the duo to uplift and affirm Black hair in its many textures and forms.
  — Martine Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
• For more than two years, Hong Kong has badly needed a source of uplift.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• The coming-of-age uplift rests next to the dull ache of remembrance in a manner befitting of the tale Branagh is telling.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2021
• The sharing of stories that the Field School facilitates is a form of uplift.
  — Douglas Haynes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
• The uplift provided by the song has not diminished with age.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2021
• More troubling is the uplift of the land surface in the same area that has averaged 0.5 inch (15 mm) per month since the start of the year with a slight increase as of late.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2023
• The series is a little bit of uplift, which is always welcome.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• The energy excess, in turn, warms the atmosphere near the surface and promotes the uplift of air that can lead to dust storms.
  — Theo Nicitopoulos, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2022
• The very strong wind shear and strong uplift along the front is most likely to generate fast-moving lines that bow outward in spots.
  — Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2021
• The music was infused with heartache, loss, pain, but with a clear-eyed emotional uplift.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2021
• What might easily have been rendered as the mournful last stop of the Trail of Tears instead gives a hopeful sense of uplift.
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022
• What's more, the report highlights an uplift in the two metrics that matter most to marketers: time and money spent on apps.
  — Peggy Anne Salz, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• The clock speed bumps provide a small across-the-board performance uplift, and the impact of the extra RAM becomes apparent in a few of our tests.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
• Brinkley’s three previous books on this theme lay the groundwork for a story of uplift.
  — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
• The décor is not meant to provide empty uplift but to undo some of the shame inflicted on patients by the outside world.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 13 July 2022
• The same goes for their assists numbers, which have gone from worst in the NBA to 19th this season following an uplift of nearly four per game.
  — Nick Crain, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2022
• As healing takes time, survivors like him are embracing the uplift.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2023
• His record ascends to anthem status, a rallying cry of uplift that sweeps the island.
  — Nacey Watson Johnson, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2023
• The life of Mike Tyson doesn’t lend itself to a traditional sort of sports biopic, so don’t expect a lot of uplift from this unauthorized look at the life of the former champ.
  — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
• At least this is a case where the end credits, explaining what happened to everyone, earn their uplift.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
• In the presence of these remnants of geologic uplift, now carved up by cold water and swathed with moss, one feels called to deeper truths.
  — Katharine Wilkinson, Time, 19 July 2021
• This isn’t troubling news as that whole area saw uplift earlier in the century that raised the ground almost 5 inches (12 cm).
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2022
• But of the new books being published to coincide with the 20th anniversary, two stand out for their focus on stories of uplift.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2021
• For Pauline Manford and her peers, an unexpected hour might come — one that isn’t scheduled with uplift.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 14 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 6 May 2024