How to Use edification in a Sentence

edification

noun

• Was this for her own self-edification or was there good intent?
  — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2017
• Few in the tech industry are sidling up to Trump for their own edification.
  — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 10 Jan. 2017
• 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
• But with their pantries full, self-isolators turned to fiction for escapism and edification.
  — The Economist, 25 Nov. 2020
• All edifications, criticism, and conclusions cannot keep us from his strange spell.
  — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
• 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
• Not every moment has to be for edification and self-improvement.
  — Josh Gondelman, SELF, 27 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
• 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
• Reading here is not embraced as mere escape, nor glorified as edification.
  — Nina Renata Aron, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• For those watching, the purpose may be edification, entertainment or both.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
• 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
• The corridors of schools and public buildings where the Ten Commandments can be read for the edification of all?
  — Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
• Actors sweat and strain and suffer, really and truly, for viewers’ pleasure and edification.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 July 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
• This was not for any tactical advantage, but rather for Brown’s personal edification.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2022
• 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
• The problem is that edification isn’t in and of itself dramatic or even necessarily nuanced.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023
• For their edification, the company published booklets of simple instructions and recipes.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Our species draws upon them for pleasure, for edification, for inspiration and motivation, and sometimes for a cheesy simulacrum of such things.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Simply put, for my personal edification but also for the benefit of the congregation.
  — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• 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 report is based on data from 2021 and is intended for the edification of business and political leaders.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• 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