Example sentences for: benevolent

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

  • Santa is a role model for our ambitious children, the perfect benevolent tycoon.

  • You must be benevolent despots, lest you find yourself manipulated by someone with the hide of a rhinoceros.

  • Ricky speaks of glimpsing in the bag's trajectory an "entire life behind things"--a "benevolent force" that holds the universe together.

  • He was especially harsh with his former friend Ernest Dowden, who espoused a benevolent Irish cosmopolitanism in opposition to Yeats' literary nationalism.

  • (Dumbledore's benevolent but strict theology, involving the operations of free will in a supernaturally determined world, is classically Miltonian--an odd note of Protestantism in this decidedly pagan cosmos.)


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