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.

  • The weirdest thing, to my mind, is the way the candidates and the media all seem to pretend that we are electing a benevolent dictator who, once elected, will snap his fingers, and the thousands of pages of position papers drawn up by his campaign staff will automatically become the law of the land.

  • Of Dictators, Benevolent and Otherwise

  • He is the ambassador from Shangri-La, emissary from a magical, peaceful land protected by stunning mountains, dotted with magnificent temples, ruled by wise and benevolent priest-kings.

  • The Maya viewed their gods not as benevolent guides but as changeable spirits in need of constant appeasement.


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