1, The dictator sought to aggrandise himself by new conquests.

2, She often aggrandises herself and disparages her colleagues.

3, At the dinner table, my father would go on and on, showing off, aggrandising himself.

4, But I think it was used not to aggrandise her but to tell people what mattered to her and say something about the values that she tried to live with at the end of her life.

5, Poland set out its strong preference for a quiet consensus-builder who will not try to aggrandise the post.