How do you use the word "elevate" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "elevate" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "elevate": New truth and knowledge always elevate human life and most usually find practical application. Try to elevate your career.

Elevate Meaning

/ˈɛləveɪt/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo raise (something) to a higher position.

verbTo promote (someone) to a higher rank.

Sentence Examples

New truth and knowledge always elevate human life and most usually find practical application.

Try to elevate your career.

He pressed the button to elevate the bed.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

lift raise upgrade

Antonyms:

lower

CEFR Practice Quiz

The president aims to ____ the status of the nation's poorest communities.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

New truth and knowledge always ____ human life and most usually find practical application.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder. ▲ Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.? Proto-Italic *leɣʷis Latin levis Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin levō Latin ēlevō Latin ēlevātusder. Middle English elevat Proto-Indo-European *-o- Proto-Indo-European *-nom Proto-Indo-European *-onom Proto-Germanic *-aną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Old English -an Middle English -en Middle English elevaten English elevate From Middle English elevaten (“to raise up, erect; to elate, inflate (e.g. with pride); (alchemy) to vaporize; (of a bone, excressence, blood vessel) to protrude”), from elevat(e) (“(in physical elevation, in rank, in altitude above the horizon) high”, also used as the past participle of elevaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), further from Latin ēlevātus, the perfect passive participle of ēlevō (“to raise, lift up”), from ē- (“out”) + levō (“to make light, to lift”), from levis (“light”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see levity and lever.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The Grace or Blessynge of the table to be sayed of chyldren standynge before it, thyr handes eleuated and ioyned to gyder" — 1534, William Marshall, George Joye, A Prymer in Englyshe, London: William Marshall:

"She had one eye declined for the loss of her husband, another elevated that the oracle was fulfilled: […]" — c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

"Abdulla expressed his surprise by elevating his eyebrows." — 1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter V, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part II, page 138:

"Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated Are more expos’d to Censure than the little ones," — 1682, Aphra Behn, “The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause”, in et al., London: D. Brown, act I, scene 1, page 6:

"Nothing can set the regal character in a more contemptible point of view, than the various crimes that have elevated men to the supreme dignity." — 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 24:

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