Example sentences for: benevolent

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

  • The gate houses the two Benevolent Kings, guardian deities created in the twelfth century by master sculptors Unkei and Kaikei to guard the inner temple compound.

  • So much for the vaunted independence of Slate from its benevolent dictator of a parent.

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

  • (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).

  • Of Dictators, Benevolent and Otherwise


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