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Example sentences for "compensated"

Lexicographically close words:
compendious; compendiously; compendium; compendiums; compensate; compensates; compensating; compensation; compensations; compensator
  1. In so large a party, the deficiencies of one were compensated by the redundant contributions of another.

  2. This uncertainty is, however, amply compensated for by the elaborate invention of the two strangers who take the girls upon their backs.

  3. The omission of being dressed on the ship is compensated for by the above-mentioned interpolation, but only for the teacher, thus indicating that his nakedness was in most urgent need of cover.

  4. Astoria had been built nearer the ocean, but the advantages offered by Tongue point more than compensated for its greater distance.

  5. The possible disadvantages of an imperfectly closable shell seem to be compensated for by increased mobility.

  6. This low potential seems to be compensated for by a lower rate of postnatal mortality (especially in adults) due to the protection afforded by the closable shell and the ability to recover from serious injury.

  7. Illinois) and compensated for this by having a shorter incubation period--is understandable.

  8. It almost compensated for the numberless tribes of vermin by which the room was tenanted.

  9. The purpose of this Act was laudable and had it resulted in supplying the prairies with timber the gift of the land would have been amply compensated for.

  10. The disdain of Madam de Breil was fully compensated by the kindness of her father-in-law, who at length began to think of me.

  11. It must, however, be clearly understood that this shorter take-up enables a greater number of individual courses to be inserted per inch, so that the apparent loss is amply compensated for by the increase in the courses.

  12. June, July and August are the hottest months, the thermometer often reaching 85 degrees or 90 degrees, though the heat of the day is to some degree compensated by the freshness of the nights.

  13. The damage done amounted to several thousands of dollars, the Portuguese owners being eventually compensated from general revenue.

  14. The trees have been so extensively felled for the gutta that there has been a great diminution in the total number during recent years, which has not been compensated for by the new plantations which have been established.

  15. The position is somewhat simplified, as already pointed out, by the fact that though the lift is decreased by the decrease in span, it is to a great extent compensated by the increase in speed.

  16. On the other hand, they suffered from the rigorous measures of the continental system, which seriously crippled trade at the ports and were not compensated by the increased facilities for trade with France which Napoleon opened up.

  17. Will she be compensated by the advantages accruing to her in consequence of budding forth in the strong light of civilisation?

  18. This arrangement being ratified by unanimous consent, they were thus compensated for having sacrificed their property and left their country in order to remain true to their faith.

  19. But while his brothers and friends were thus falling away from him Napoleon felt amply compensated in March 1811 by the birth of a son, who was given the high-sounding title of King of Rome.

  20. The city of Tortosa was the first to feel their rage; by attacking and plundering which, they in some degree compensated their former losses.

  21. But all the sufferings of pregnancy and childbirth are compensated for by the ardent desire of the normal woman to have a child, and by the happiness of hearing its first cry.

  22. Another page shows how he was compensated for this "trifling profit" of the Prime Serjeancy.

  23. In the year 1850, the fines were transferred to the College account, and the Senior Fellows were compensated out of the "Cista communis.

  24. The unmerited suffering was abundantly compensated by that good and gracious Providence, whose dispensations reach to the humblest, and specially regards the oppressed.

  25. Large trade deficits have been compensated for by remittances from Yemenis working abroad and by foreign aid.

  26. During the past decade, growth in the financial sector has more than compensated for the decline in steel.

  27. France now obtained the whole of the left bank of the Rhine, the dispossessed princes being compensated by grants of secularized church lands and of mediatized imperial cities (1803).

  28. The loss of the islands was amply compensated for by the political advantages which Bismarck gained by this attention to the pope, and, after all, not many years elapsed before they became German.

  29. But the advantages of having a steamship line for carrying the supplies of the canal were so great, because of the special facilities that could be provided, that the loss was more than compensated by them.

  30. Many shareholders have been more than compensated for their subscriptions by the collateral benefits they have received from the canal.

  31. She was compensated by an expression of the Countess's desire for the pleasure of her company at the ball.

  32. For what compensated me after my lost train and all my worry and vexation of spirit?


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