Example sentences for: benevolent

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

  • In the early decades of this century, when racist views were the norm, Phillips' picture of slavery as benevolent institution held sway.

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

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

  • 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.

  • (A quarter century after high school trigonometry, about all I can remember of it is the benevolent Indian “Soh-Cah-Toa”: Sine = o pposite/ hy potenuse, C osine = a djacent/ hy potenuse, T angent= o pposite/ a djacent, relating the lengths of the right triangle's sides to the functions of its angles).


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