How to Use edify in a Sentence

edify

verb

• These books will both entertain and edify readers.
• Not every scare serves to scar — some can even edify.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
• The much-in-vogue hybrid mode proves more cryptic than edifying this time around.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
• Both haven’t really edified him, at this point.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
• What will edify us now, and echo down to generations to come and uplift them?
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2011
• Yet Beard seems delighted to edify and even befriend her haters.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 16 May 2021
• There are stories and edifying captions on just about every page.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024
• Zimmer sprinkles his book with stories that both dazzle and edify the reader.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• The problem is, the debate usually devolves into a facile back and forth that edifies no one.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• There’s no need to fret about merely being edified by the material.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 12 Apr. 2017
• Music helps, of course, as do games—but nothing can entertain and edify quite like a good audiobook.
  — Vogue, 12 July 2021
• Next week, the senior center is hosting a weeklong affair to edify its members.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
• The pair spectacularly fell out at the back end of last year, amid a series of less than edifying verbal jousts.
  — Dan Cancian, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
• When Taylor and Dion dig into the past, the results are edifying.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
• So be intentional about edifying your mind, body, and spirit.
  — Ashley McDonough, Essence, 12 Nov. 2019
• That’s not to say that the ensuing conversation would have been edifying.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
• Media outlets may be biased or care more about entertaining their consumers than edifying them.
  — Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2022
• Our conversations are jovial, sometimes alarming, and always edifying, at least for me.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2023
• If handled properly, change can be a great opportunity to edify your team and give your managers the skills to become better leaders.
  — Jane Sparrow, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• If handled properly, change can be a great opportunity to edify your team and give your managers the skills to become better leaders.
  — Jane Sparrow, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• General readers will be more edified by the story of the expedition itself, which the author describes in detail.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
• Finding the least taxing way to activate your inner circle could gratify — and edify — all involved, and restore a sense of control over your own well-being.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
• Architecture to me is successful when the community is empowered by it, is edified by it, and is elevated by it.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018
• Reality agreed to date her high-school boyfriend, Carlos, on certain conditions intended to improve and to edify.
  — Kerry Howley, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Dec. 2017
• Again, as a parent, we’re edified to hear this — though a 700-calorie lunch is beyond the target for my high school freshman and her Ozempic journey.
  — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
• The distillery tour was edifying, the country beautiful, the double-oaked bourbon like drinking an alcoholic waffle.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• For two decades, this edifying A&E docuseries has been lifting the veil of investigative work during that critical time frame.
  — EW.com, 27 May 2024
• The past several weeks haven’t been particularly edifying for the health of American culture.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• If a reporter were to crop a photo that was previously edified using Photoshop, for example, both of those changes to the images would be noted in the final manifest.
  — Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
• His music, like that of others but more than most, can edify, elevate and inspire in its intelligence, its endless inventiveness and its understated emotion.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020