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Example sentences for "benefactors"

Lexicographically close words:
benedictory; benefacta; benefaction; benefactions; benefactor; benefactress; benefice; beneficed; beneficence; beneficent
  1. And she had even repaid her benefactors with deception.

  2. She could no longer remain a Schnorrer, abusing the bounty of her benefactors into the bargain.

  3. And therefore you place your benefactors in an asylum, and your noblemen on the scaffold.

  4. The story deals with the prettiest case of loyal Negro's devotion and gratitude to his white benefactors that we ever knew of.

  5. No one of any color could have been more faithful and appreciative, and such gratitude and devotion as this humble Negro has shown for his white benefactors is a lovely thing to behold in this selfish day.

  6. How few benefactors have received even as much as he; for he won dignities, admiration, and undying fame.

  7. He is indeed one of the great benefactors of the world itself, for the richness of his immortal legacy.

  8. The old apostles, and other great benefactors of the world, attached more value to the truths which elevate than to the arts which soften.

  9. I think it is Lamartine who has said that truly immortal benefactors have seldom been able to accomplish their mission without the encouragement of either saints or women.

  10. Between these tables of impropriation benefactors is a neat marble tablet with the following inscription: A.

  11. Sometimes the Lords of the Manors belonging to parishes whose churches have been rebuilt, have been liberal benefactors on these occasions, especially about the time when the re-building of Lowestoft church was undertaken.

  12. For we prefer such benefactors as God and our parents, from whom we have received the greatest favors, to those on whom we have bestowed lesser benefits.

  13. Therefore we ought to love our benefactors above all.

  14. Therefore we ought to do good to our benefactors rather than to those who are closely united to us.

  15. Therefore we ought to love our benefactors more than those to whom we are kind.

  16. He continued his toil until his death, having kindled the unextinguishable torch of a free press, and taken his rank with the benefactors of mankind.

  17. Flinders[24] predicted that the name of Bass would be conspicuous among the benefactors of mankind: the glory of his own will enlarge with the value of his discoveries.

  18. He felt that up to the present the benefactors of the university had been men of an entirely different class from himself.

  19. Some of the chief founders and benefactors of the faculty," answered the president, and at this the hopes of Tomlinson sank in his heart.

  20. We are always happy to grant it to our benefactors by a vote of the faculty.

  21. Finally I recommend to thy fatherly goodness all my benefactors and all the faithful adherents to the cause for which I am now about to suffer.

  22. It should be Christ's Hospital, for most of your wealthy citizens are good benefactors to it; and yet it can hardly be so, because so few in it are kept upon alms.

  23. It would seem as if these only were the great men of the world, as if these only were the benefactors of mankind, whose deeds are worthy of memory.

  24. His heroes are known and gratefully remembered for the benefits they have conferred on mankind, but our knowledge of our benefactors has hitherto been mostly confined to our knowledge of the benefit.

  25. On the second day, about noon, they marched to Easyhill and attacked and demolished the mansion of Mr. Ryland, one of the most munificent benefactors of the town.

  26. The War in Spain: Benefactors of Mankind, &c.

  27. For Heaven's sake let all benefactors of their species have the honour due to them.

  28. No, but he is proud of them; he is better pleased with rewards given to the benefactors of man than to his destroyers.

  29. Workingmen of our day should ponder over this, and take to heart the truth that manual mechanical labor is the likeliest career to develop mechanical inventors and lead them to such distinction as these benefactors of man achieved.

  30. Watt therefore must always stand among the benefactors of men, in the triple capacity of discoverer, inventor, and constructor.

  31. His successor Ramryge wrote a book 'on the doings of the abbots, monks and benefactors of the monastery of St Albans' in which Wallingford appears of a character very different from that suggested by Morton's letter.

  32. In return for the hospitality so liberally bestowed on him he celebrated his personal relations to his benefactors in complimentary verses.

  33. They were held as benefactors in the districts which witnessed their efforts, and the day of their death was inscribed in the local calendar.

  34. By meriting the title of benefactors of your country, you will also merit that of benefactors of the human race.

  35. And there's nothing less left to put up; all the commoners who were "benefactors of mankind" having had their statues in the public places, long ago.

  36. And it has ever been a grief to the multitude that the lives of those patriots and benefactors of their species should, through modesty, have been unrevealed to such as pant to copy them.

  37. It was really the gift of various benefactors in different ages to the Church, for pious purposes, and had been universally recognized as sacred.

  38. Parties reward mediocre men, whom they can use or bend; and the greatest benefactors lose their popularity when they oppose the enthusiasm of new ideas, or become austere in their instructions.

  39. As in the case of other monasteries, and as time went on, numerous benefactors arose.

  40. Many privileges and immunities were granted to them by the church authorities in Rome, and the abbey was visited at different times by persons of all ranks, some of whom became benefactors to the house.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "benefactors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.