heighten

How To Use heighten In A Sentence

• Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm 
• Experts attribute the behaviour to 'musth' (a state of heightened testosterone-fuelled aggression in bull elephants). The Times of India
• Speak to fitness and conditioning coaches and they will tell you how long layoffs cause weaknesses that heighten a susceptibility to minor injuries. Times, Sunday Times
• My father, who fought in the First World War, described fear as not so much a sick feeling as a heightening of the senses.
• Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years. Monster of Marriage
• Heighten efficiency ; predigest working procedure to reduce cost.
• The campaign is intended to heighten public awareness of the disease.
• A heightened female sensitivity to ingested ethanol could possibly serve useful functions.
• Briggs killed Elves and lycanthropes; he deflected arrows from above with his shield; and he heightened his troops' morale.
• Isabella's cheeks heightened in color, but the blond man did not take any notice.