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Example sentences for "forgiving"

Lexicographically close words:
forgiveness; forgiver; forgives; forgivest; forgiveth; forgivingly; forgo; forgoe; forgoing; forgone
  1. All his laws decreed to be reviewed, and a plan proposed of forgiving all revolutionary crimes.

  2. Louis is conducted to the scaffold; his behaviour is steady and dignified, he speaks a few words protesting his innocence, forgiving his enemies, and hoping that his death might restore peace to his wretched country.

  3. She had staked everything on Laurel's sweet, forgiving disposition.

  4. You will come home to Eden yourself, forgetting and forgiving all the past, will you not, my injured wife?

  5. But try--do try--to feel some forgiving sorrow for me!

  6. On reflection, I shrank from forestalling her in the double luxury of surprising and forgiving him.

  7. I'm not very good at saying my prayers, but I do think there's something in that bit about forgiving people.

  8. That talking about the Bible, and the forgiving of trespasses, was very queer; and that allusion to the marrying of heiresses very queer indeed.

  9. Paul had of course behaved badly, very badly,--but had it not been for them she might have had an opportunity of forgiving him.

  10. Perhaps I've been wrong in not forgiving my sister.

  11. Come, give me one forgiving kiss, and say you will go.

  12. She would wait on him with such tenderness, such all-forgiving love, that the old harshness and cruelty must melt away for ever under the heart-sunshine she would pour around him.

  13. It is beyond doubt that he spoke, throughout the conference, in the spirit of forgetting and forgiving immediately and almost entirely.

  14. Who stands first--outcast Esau forgiving Jacob in prosperity, or Joseph on a king's throne forgiving the ragged tremblers whose happy rascality placed him there?

  15. The tomb of Joseph, the dutiful son, the affectionate, forgiving brother, the virtuous man, the wise Prince and ruler.

  16. He met the snub with a calm, forgiving smile, and continued his shambling gait with what dignity he could towards his bedroom opposite.

  17. It is the truest means of forgiving injuries and loving enemies.

  18. Besides all that is said in the gospel about forgiving offenses, as in the 6th and 18th chapters of St. Matthew.

  19. Added to his ancestral creed of never forgiving such injury, came a rush of memory--the backward-surging picture of his homeless little sweetheart and all that she had endured.

  20. King Henry died cursing and accursed; King Richard forgiving and forgiven; King John blaspheming, and not held worthy of reproof.

  21. Save then yourself and me from these miseries, by forgiving my past errors, and deigning sometimes to see and converse with me!

  22. He had again talked to her of her daughter; and urged the propriety of forgiving her; but he had at the same time renewed his animadversions on her own conduct.

  23. Mr Langley, mean time, though grieved for the death of the infant, was alive to the generous forgiving disposition which Adeline evinced; and could not help exclaiming.

  24. Well may the lady be silent; her little sins are magnified to herself to the proportion of the greatness of heart forgiving her; and that, with his mysterious penetration and a throb of her conscience, holds her tongue-tied.

  25. But he had a broad full heart for the woman who would come to him, forgiving her, uplifting her, richly endowing her.

  26. I don't know what has come over me, but I simply can't endure the thought of her, let alone forgiving her.

  27. Father and Mother were so dear and forgiving over it that I can't wait to see them.

  28. If Melanchthon did not require a strong faith in the forgiving grace of God for himself, he needed it as a teacher of that grace to others; he must, therefore, familiarize himself with the immensity and power of that grace.

  29. That night, while Lon McFane sought the forgiving arms of the Church in the direction of Father Roubeau's cabin, Malemute Kid talked long to little purpose.

  30. The very foes of a person that is of a forgiving disposition trust him even when he becomes guilty of a grave transgression.

  31. As forgiving as the Earth is a common form of expression in almost every Indian dialect.

  32. He should in time give what should be given, If the king becomes possessed of prowess, truthful in speech, and forgiving in temper, he would never fall away from prosperity.

  33. Yours is such a gentle, forgiving nature, that you can but excuse, especially when you know that the act is prompted by as deep an affection and as earnest an admiration as could be bestowed by the heart of a man.

  34. We Christians are all taught to be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgives us.

  35. Nothing was more touching than the forgiving lenity with which he tolerated the plots and hatred of his execrable brother, Domitian.

  36. She died forgiving all her enemies, and in perfect peace.

  37. So we see that cats, although gentle and forgiving in the extreme to those who love them, do not easily forget an injury from the hands of a stranger or cat-hater.

  38. The following anecdote shows, I think, in a very marked manner, how deeply attached pussy can be to her master, and how forgiving is her nature.

  39. You have patience, and a soft forgiving disposition.

  40. He is about the least forgiving man I ever knew or heard of.

  41. He is more forgiving than you think, Tom," said she, smiling.

  42. His lips moved in prayer, the forgiving words mingling with the curses of his assailants: "O God, my help and my shield!


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forgiving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepting; benevolent; charitable; compassionate; conciliatory; easy; easygoing; forbearing; forgiving; generous; gentle; human; humane; indulgent; kind; lax; lenient; magnanimous; merciful; mild; moderate; pardon; patient; soft; sparing; tender; tolerant