Example sentences for: benevolent

How can you use “benevolent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Among the most important distortions she exposes are: an invented psychology degree from the University of Vienna; pretended acquaintance with Freud; guardianship of an autistic child whom his first wife in fact tended; unreliable accounts of his ordeals in Dachau and Buchenwald; and exaggerated claims of success as a benevolent savior of emotionally disturbed children at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago.

  • Set in the Civil War South, Peter Fonda is the benevolent plantation owner Gideon Prosper, whose evil brother (John Glover) plots to have him killed in order to take over the plantation.

  • Nobody's figured out how to make sure the dictator will actually be benevolent before giving him the reins of power.

  • Led by the Southern-born Ulrich Phillips, whose American Negro Slavery (1918) was the standard work in the field for decades, leading academic historians portrayed slavery as a benevolent, paternalistic institution that benefited blacks by civilizing them.

  • Of Dictators, Benevolent and Otherwise


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