5109 examples of inspire in sentences

The grave should be surrounded by everything that might inspire tenderness and veneration for the dead; or that might win the living to virtue.

The people rallied and erected barricades, which of course were swept away by the cannon of General Magnan, accompanied by needless cruelties and waste of blood, probably with the view to inspire fear and show that resistance was hopeless.

But, more than all, he attempted to rouse a moral, religious, and patriotic spirit in the nation, and to inspire it anew with courage, self-confidence, and self-sacrifice.

V. excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

[cause hope] give hope, inspire hope, raise hope, hold out hope &c n.; promise, bid fair, augur well, be in a fair way, look up, flatter, tell a flattering tale; raise expectations (sentient subject); encourage, cheer, assure, reassure, buoy up, embolden.

inspire despair, drive to despair &c n.; disconcert; dash one's hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes; hope against hope.

inspire fear, excite fear, inspire awe, excite awe; raise apprehensions^; be in a daze, bulldoze

inspire fear, excite fear, inspire awe, excite awe; raise apprehensions^; be in a daze, bulldoze

bell the cat, take the bull by the horns, beard the lion in his den, march up to the cannon's mouth, go through fire and water, run the gantlet. give courage, infuse courage, inspire courage; reassure, encourage, embolden, inspirit, cheer, nerve, put upon one's mettle, rally, raise a rallying cry; pat on the back, make a man of., keep in countenance.

[Fr.]; put oneself forward; fish for compliments; give oneself airs &c (assume) 885; boast &c 884. render vain &c adj.; inspire with vanity &c n.; inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's head.

V. be pious &c adj.; have faith &c n.; believe, receive Christ; revere &c 928; be converted &c; convert, edify, sanctify, keep holy, beatify, regenerate, inspire, consecrate, enshrine.

We come up to a wax figure with the same reserve and caution as a real man would inspire in us: our will is excited; it waits to see whether he is going to be friendly to us, or the reverse, fly from us, or attack us; in a word, it expects some action of him.

A great mind would inspire as much respect at first sight as three stars on a man's breast, and what a miserable figure would be cut by many a one who wore them!

Therefore the general government was empowered to raise and maintain an army and navy, and it thus became "competent to inspire confidence at home and respect abroad.

O princely face and fayre, that lightens all the ayre, Would God my eyes kind fire might life and soule inspire.

The moderate estimate I have just formed ought to inspire the more confidence from its being well known that the use of the buyo is general among the inhabitants of these Islands.

Let us travel over the provinces, and we shall there see towns of 5000, 10,000, and 20,000 Indians, peacefully governed by one weak old man, who, with his doors open at all hours, sleeps quiet and secure in his dwelling, without any other magic, or any other guards, than the love and respect with which he has known to inspire his flock.

incierto, -a, uncertain, wandering, restless. incitar, to incite; to inspire.

informe, shapeless, formless. infundir, to infuse, inspire, instill. ingenio, m., ingenuity, cleverness, wit, mind. ingenioso, -a, ingenious, clever. ininteligible, unintelligible. inmediato, -a, immediate, next, adjacent, very near. inmensidad, f., immensity.

inspirar, to inspire.

Her joyous company doth him inspire For Sam-kha, joy, and love, and wild desire.

we crown thee in our homes, And give to thee our love that holy comes From Heaven to inspire and bless our lives.

O Beauty, Purity, my theme inspire!

And when Appius began to station his ships at the mouth of the port, in order to inspire the other party with courage, their false insinuations appeared to receive great corroboration; and on the first impulse, the populace had even run down in a disorderly manner to prevent them from disembarking.

Yet, ere they depart, I wish there might be some masterly attempt to reproduce, in art or literature, what is proper to them, a kind of beauty and grandeur, which few of the every-day crowd have hearts to feel, yet which ought to leave in the world its monuments, to inspire the thought of genius through all ages.

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