Example sentences for: forgivable

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

  • Least forgivable of all was the omission of Allen Walker Read's 1934 classic An Obscenity Symbol, the most important article ever written on fuck , despite the absence of that word from the article itself (a not uncommon situation in the field, I might add).

  • However, dropping umlauts is less forgivable than dropping accents, because accents describe pronunciation, and anyone who is familiar with the word will know how it is supposed to be pronounced, regardless of the accent.

  • To say that Shawn was "a man who grieved over all living creatures" is forgivable hyperbole; but later to add that he "mourned" for Si Newhouse when Newhouse unceremoniously fired him in 1987 (a couple of years after buying the magazine)--well, that's a bit much.


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