Yet a tall and well-planted aiguille always possesses marked individuality of its own, which more than compensates for lack of volume and altitude.
The gain more than compensates most men for the loss, and makes this district specially deserving of the guideless amateur's attention.
This forces up the diaphragm andcompensates for any loss of gas from the envelope above.
In the tank there is a high-pressure valve with an upper chamber which compensates for the temperature.
Besides the well-known effect of solar light in tanning the skin, it also makes it thicker and better able to resist exposure; though the complexion may be thereby injured, the health gains more than compensates for the loss of beauty.
It affords a good rent; and the landlord sometimes finds that he can scarce employ his best lands more advantageously than in growing barren timber, of which the greatness of the profit often compensates the lateness of the returns.
The monopoly, it has been supposed, indeed, by increasing the private revenue of the people of Great Britain, and thereby enabling them to pay greater taxes, compensates the deficiency of the public revenue of the colonies.
To them this amusement compensatesthe small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace.
He is thus enabled to furnish work to a greater value; and the profit which he makes by it in this way much more than compensates the additional price which the profit of the retailer imposes upon the goods.
Defect somewhere compensates for success, Every one knows that.
Anything which alleviates orcompensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp.
For the latter had a more confined genius; but by diligence, that sometimes compensates the neglect of nature, he was enabled to attain an honourable station among his contemporaries.
The excellence of this little piece amply compensates for its want of quantity.
But if he sinks some adverbs in the verbs, he compensates the language with adverbs and adjectives which he separates from the parent stock.
As salt had been left behind we had to boil the meat à la Dayak in bamboo with very little water, which compensates for the absence of seasoning.
The ludicrous self-sufficiency of the Bornean male fowls, at times very amusing, compensates to some extent for the noise they make, but they are as reckless as the knights-errant of old.
The merit of obeying an order to slay an enemy of the Church more thancompensates for the guilt of the murder.
Nothing compensates in an old hereditary monarchy for the want of high descent in its ruler.
Etiquette is the refuge of failing power, and compensates by external show for inherent weakness, as stiffness and formality are the refuge of dulness and mediocrity in private life.
The bones of the leg are sometimes bent inwards in their lower thirds, and thiscompensates partly for the valgus deformity at the knee.
When unilateral, the patient compensates for the lengthening of the limb by flexing the knee and throwing the limb outwards in walking.
The normal depression behind the great trochanter is lost, the gluteal fold is raised, and there is often a degree of lordosis which compensates for the flexion.
In unilateral knock-knee, the affected limb is a little shorter than its fellow, but the patient compensates for this by depressing the pelvis on the affected side.
Ankylosis# is not so disabling at the shoulder as at other joints, as the mobility of the scapula on the chest wall largely compensates for the fixation of the joint.
If their time is of any value to them at all, the fact that they have a shop on the spot far more than compensates them for any difference they may pay in price.
The justness of his reflections more than compensates for the absence of his predecessor's humor; he touches the heart as well as gratifies the intellect.
He proposed to himself the severe simplicity of the Greeks with respect to the plot, while he rejected the pomp of poetry which compensates for interest among the classic writers of antiquity.
Its fuel value is not high, though the quantity of its wood production compensates for its poor quality, nor does it make good fence posts.
It sometimes happens in public life that one error compensates another; in this case cowardice in some measure remedied the mischief which obstinacy had incurred.
However, the view from the rear veranda down the steep slope to the Bay of Trogilus more than compensatesfor the trivial discomforts of poor tea and iron chairs.
But if the weather be too hazy to see the Titan, the nearer view compensates in great measure for the invisible volcano.
And now the world of London, the rich and gay portions of it at least, enjoy that which compensates them for the absence of the bright nights and skies of Italy—a climate within doors, of comfort and luxury, unknown under brighter heavens.
Perhaps a vague consciousness that the perfection of this smaller gift was not the destiny of which she was most worthy, prompted the devotion of its gains to the mission which compensates to her self-respect.
This must be admitted; yet we think it fully compensates for the loss by the exhibition of its light-brown nuts, some on the ground, some ready to fall, and others just peeping out of their cells.
Their glorycompensates a kingdom's loss; But piety must not be wed to crime.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compensates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
