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Example sentences for: compliment

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

It's true that they were smelly and that the sight of poverty and desperation are not pleasant, and they all told the same self-serving lies for my benefit, and could never remember no matter how many times they were told that white women don't think it's a compliment to be told they have big legs, and they were noisy, although they would pipe down if you cared to go out at three in the morning to ask, which the tourists sure won't.
I am writing to compliment James Surowiecki on his simultaneously rigorous and humanistic analysis of the General Motors strike ("Moneybox," June 10).
About the nicest compliment I could give Bernstein (and Grambs) for producing this excellent work is to remark, why did I not think of doing it first?
Our quoted compliment employs the implicit tokenism of the definite article--"the woman"--the condescension of "girl," the dubious virtue of "talented," suggesting that her abilities were something she was born with, not something she earned.
It is readable, but that compliment must be taken in the context in which it appears: a grammar could scarcely be classified as a “good read” in the same sense as a novel.