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Example sentences for "forgiven"

Lexicographically close words:
forgings; forgit; forgits; forgiue; forgive; forgiveness; forgiver; forgives; forgivest; forgiveth
  1. A year later the county might have forgiven her, if she had borne the misfortune that came to her more meekly.

  2. Peter's kindliness was so vast that he felt like a school-boy being forgiven by the professor of moral philosophy.

  3. France is a big country, Monsieur; and I come from a good distance on the other side of Libourne, so I may well be forgiven for not having got all these names by heart.

  4. But I may at least strive to gain some knowledge of this man's character and objects; and, if I do assume a spirit different from my own to fathom the depth of his, surely it may be forgiven when the cause is so powerful.

  5. Therefore I say unto you, Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven.

  6. Whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him.

  7. We read in the language of Jesus that "every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven" (Matt.

  8. Therefore I say unto you, Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven.

  9. Do you think, Peg, that the robber that was forgiven wass a--a murderer?

  10. He was soon forgiven and busy bringing in logs of wood to pile on the fire.

  11. She had forgiven him for breaking her china, and had made up her mind to trust him again; so she gave him a pitcher of milk to carry home.

  12. I know he hasn't much common-sense, and have forgiven him.

  13. He knows that I have no brains, and has forgiven me.

  14. I have forgiven her for that, a long time ago, and I am too much accustomed to it!

  15. He had come to see Peter in his need, but he had not forgiven him, and he would remain standing in his house.

  16. I don't think I've forgiven you yet, nor ever shall.

  17. A fellow does not care to be forgiven when he has done nothing.

  18. In my mind he has been so clever that he ought to be forgiven all his rascality.

  19. You bade me not to write, and you have not even forgiven me for disobeying your order.

  20. I have forgiven it, and you ought to forgive!

  21. Kitty knew that the words she had uttered in anger about her husband's infidelity and her humiliating position had cut her poor sister to the heart, but that she had forgiven her.

  22. If you had any sins," she said, "they would all be forgiven you for your coming to see me and these words.

  23. As soon as she had said it, she felt that however warm his feelings were to her, he had not forgiven her for that.

  24. I have forgiven all, and so I cannot deprive her of what is exacted by love in her--by her love for her son.

  25. In the bottom of her heart she had forgiven herself solely under condition of the fullest renunciation, and it was a condition which would remain binding for all time to come.

  26. God has forgiven me, and no one may now say anything more against me.

  27. The adultery of a childless wife may be forgiven or explained; but that of a mother, never!

  28. And forgive us our debts, as we also lead us not into temptation, but have forgiven our debtors.

  29. A moment more and I had doubtless forgiven him.

  30. It was in me and through me that she was deceived, insulted, humbled, and contaminated; that she should ever have forgiven me for a moment is more than I can credit or fathom to this hour.

  31. GOD hath forgiven what is past, but whoever returneth to transgress, GOD will take vengeance on him; for GOD is mighty and able to avenge.

  32. Having forgiven the crime they committed, in giving the hypocrites leave to be absent from the expedition to Tabûc; or for the other sins which they might, through inadvertence, have been guilty of.

  33. He therefore who when there cometh unto him an admonition from his LORD abstaineth from usury for the future, shall have what is past forgiven him, and his affair belongeth unto GOD.

  34. But for the Virtuous Things you do, The Righteous Work, the Public Care, It shall not be forgiven you.

  35. When the Last Trumpet rends the air It shall not be forgiven you.

  36. I know a house in Hoxton where It shall not be forgiven you.

  37. For I have never denied myself any pleasure I could get in this world, and I can boast that much will be forgiven me, for I have loved much: of that you, gentlemen, know something.

  38. I have forgiven you so much during the last seven years.

  39. The next day he told his penitent that Mrs. Frere had forgiven him.

  40. They granted him his request, and then they asked him whether he had forgiven Altisidora for having tried to capture his love.

  41. Sancho was inclined to be reticent; but urged by Don Quixote--and having been forgiven in advance for any vexation he might cause him by telling the truth--he told of the variety of opinions that existed in the village.

  42. When Sancho heard all this he asked to be forgiven by God for saying he thought his master was lying, but the next moment he had retracted it, and when his master asked what he really meant, he said he did not know.

  43. At first I was angry with him also, but finally I have forgiven him.

  44. If it had not been for this last, I might have forgiven you after you had made fitting apologies to the prime minister; even now I shall lighten your punishment, because this pure and lovely mortal has interceded for you.

  45. For a last effort, Mrs. Chump laid before Braintop a prospect of advancement in his office, if he so contrived as to write a letter that should land her in Brookfield among a scourged, repentant, and forgiven people.

  46. You have forgiven it, and Merthyr, because he is my friend; but I am sure Wilfrid will not.

  47. You have understood me, I know, and forgiven me for writing so nakedly.

  48. That he has never forgiven the English for!

  49. Alison knew that Mrs. Atterbury had never forgiven her for rejecting her son--or rather for being the kind of woman who could reject him.

  50. I told you once that I should never have forgiven myself if I had wrecked your life.

  51. At the end of two weeks Julia threw herself at my feet in a deluge of tears begging to be forgiven and to be allowed to nurse her baby again.

  52. It would be simply unbearable pain to her to know that we had driven you away, and you must stay to show that you have forgiven the wrong we have done you.

  53. I have forgiven everything, and if you give me time I can forget.

  54. May I be forgiven this coarse expression, but I am powerless now to restrain my aversion for their stupid life, for their thoughts, for their feelings.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forgiven" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acquitted; clear; condoned; disregarded; excused; forgiven; forgotten; indulged; overlooked; pardoned; redeemed; remitted; spared