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Example sentences for "charitable"

Lexicographically close words:
charioteer; charioteers; chariotry; chariots; charismatic; charitably; charite; charitie; charities; charity
  1. It is pleasant to conclude this chapter with an expression of gratitude to a man so blameless in his life, so charitable in his judgments, and so trustworthy in his record of contemporary history.

  2. This personage is as attractive as Don Juan, brave as Murat, a poet like Shakespeare, and as charitable as St. Vincent de Paul.

  3. I beg of you, be charitable to the poor, weak Maria, for she is young and she must suffer!

  4. It shows, Schmiedel says, Paul's contempt for the knowledge of Christ after the flesh, when the Incarnation is all he can adduce as a pattern for such a simply human thing as a charitable gift.

  5. But He does take account of true charity, and because He does, the charitable may be of good cheer: He will not allow them to be without the means of manifesting a spirit so grateful to Him.

  6. You better reconcile, sir, than advise: Be not more charitable than you're wise.

  7. Was this, then, the meaning of her restlessness, of her charitable activities, of her unconfessed dreams of some career?

  8. I sometimes doubt if it is not all a mistake most of our charitable work.

  9. Well, taking the mystery out of it, the predominant element of worship, making the churches sort of good-will charitable associations for the spread of sociability and good-feeling.

  10. Was he any more charitable than Uncle Jerry?

  11. Probably the resentment lies in the recognition of the truth that it is much easier to be charitable than to be just.

  12. I am charitable enough to suppose that if the scheme had failed, the public conscience is so tender that there would have been a question of Henderson's honesty.

  13. How fond he was of his family, and how charitable about Congress!

  14. I think he spends half his time in New York studying, he calls it, our charitable institutions.

  15. That habit of celebrating the munificence of the charitable rich, on which he spends his sarcasm, has fallen from us through the mere superabundance of occasion.

  16. Oh, I suppose for charitable and educational purposes.

  17. He was, by principle, a charitable man to his neighbours; but he hated popery, and he carried the feeling to such a length, that he almost hated Papists.

  18. Of course, you expect to pay a price for my charitable silence.

  19. Just as curiously, his business in New York is not to administer the vengeance of the Czar, but to do a kindly and charitable deed.

  20. This is the most charitable view which we can take of the Nirvâna, even as conceived by Buddha himself, and it is the view which Burnouf derived from the canonical books of the Northern Buddhists.

  21. It is possible to put a charitable interpretation on many doctrines of ancient heathenism, and the practical missionary is constantly obliged to do so.

  22. When he saw a tigress starved, and unable to feed her cubs, he is said to have made a charitable oblation of his body to be devoured by them.

  23. The facility with which money can be raised in London for charitable purposes is very astonishing.

  24. There is no city in the world possessing an equal number of charitable institutions to those of the British capital.

  25. Undoubtedly the English are a more charitable people than the French.

  26. Six weeks before, on the very day they had cabled him that Mrs. Stedman was in New York, she had left the charitable institution where she had been employed, and had again disappeared.

  27. Such was her idea of being charitable and sisterly.

  28. She had known that the archdeacon would gain nothing be interfering; but she was too charitable to provoke him by saying so while he was in such deep sorrow.

  29. He had quite fascinated Mrs Bold by his description of this picturesque, useful, and charitable appendage, and she had gone so far as to say that she had no doubt her father would approve, and that she herself would gladly undertake a class.

  30. On the whole things were going well with the archdeacon, and he could afford to be charitable to Mrs Quiverful.

  31. He was a good, quiet, charitable man, of the old school of course, as any clergyman over seventy years of age must necessarily be.

  32. She ate and drank, and as the inner woman was recruited she felt a little more charitable towards the world at large.

  33. Her father, who was generally charitable to all men, who seldom spoke ill of any one, had warned against Mr Slope, and yet she did not know how to abstain from thanking him.

  34. There Ibrahim made inquiries in the bazaar where the wealthy traders met to discuss their affairs, and soon learned of a rich dealer in precious stones, a man of a multitude of charitable deeds, who was anxious to erect an imposing residence.

  35. As a prince, he remembered, he had spoken harshly as a rule, and had never visited any of the charitable institutions.

  36. Of a most charitable disposition, learned and ever ready to assist the poor with money and wise counsel, he was reverenced by all, and it was believed he was a direct descendant of King David.

  37. I need not say so to you, for you have a charitable soul.

  38. Often these last gentlemen are members of the rival Society, and, as might be expected, pick plenty of holes in the execution of their opponents, for which charitable purpose only they have probably attended.

  39. Such demonstrations as these, and we might mention many others, have their origin in certain charitable dispositions and bequests, many of which are of considerable antiquity.

  40. In London, there are charitable dispositions and bequests for the nursery of every virtue that could be named, but more especially of industry, providence, and thrift.

  41. These are supposed to arise mainly from the increase in value of property originally devised to charitable uses--which increase it is their custom to appropriate as they please.

  42. There is no entertainment so full of quiet pleasure as the hearing a lady of cultivation and refinement relate her day's experience in her daily rounds of calls, charitable visits, shopping, errands of relief and condolence.

  43. It is evident that there are Jews, and some Gentiles, whose condition needs ameliorating, and if very little is really accomplished in the effort for them, it always remains true that the charitable reap a benefit to themselves.

  44. All of which shows what a charitable and good-tempered world it is, notwithstanding its reputation for cynicism and detraction.

  45. You must have some charitable object,--something that appeals to a vast sense of something; something that it will be right to get up lotteries and that sort of thing for.

  46. When the sun was fairly down, we slipped back to the hotel in the charitable gloaming, and went to bed again.

  47. I am glad I am not in the mess; they may at least be charitable enough to think there ain't a pair of us.

  48. They by and by surrendered, and begged for charitable terms.

  49. Louis XVI did not die in his bed, consequently history is very gentle with him; she is charitable toward his failings, and she finds in him high virtues which are not usually considered to be virtues when they are lodged in kings.

  50. Even in Venice he set aside a fixed sum for charitable purposes.

  51. What, you see here, even to the straw, belongs, to the landlord of the house, who has been charitable enough to give us shelter.

  52. The charitable lady was alarmed for the safety of her protegée, and, with a liberal price, bought off the father's natural desire.

  53. This charitable hint of future reprobation, savage as it appears, seems to have been much admired by the Fathers; it is repeated by St Jerome and St Cyprian with equal triumph.

  54. A charitable lady went on a visit of condolence to a poor woman whose husband's name had just appeared in the list of the killed at Spion Kop.

  55. Nothing has roused that fury of charitable curiosity which accompanies a true social revival, and leaves its victims gasping for the next excitement.

  56. The same charitable dispositions which settled the amount of Mozart's debts were also busy in accounting for the fact of their existence.

  57. One seldom can know who are charitable and kind in this world, for I never suspected him of being a good Samaritan.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "charitable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    altruistic; beneficent; benevolent; benign; bountiful; charitable; chivalrous; compassionate; complimentary; considerate; eleemosynary; forbearing; free; generous; gentle; given; good; gratis; gratuitous; human; humane; humanitarian; indulgent; kind; large; lenient; liberal; magnanimous; melting; merciful; open; patient; philanthropic; pitying; ruthful; selfless; soft; sympathetic; tender; tenderhearted; thoughtful; tolerant; understanding; unselfish; warmhearted; welfare