Example sentences for: forgive

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

  • One would also have to forgive the Indian subcontinent's most highly trained cardiologist for failing to recognize that It's me dickey ticker, doctor--which sounds as if the patient requires the services of a watch-repairer--is an allusion to longstanding heart disease.

  • Take shelter from the storm with Jimi Hendrix (if you can forgive the mixed musical allusion) in a new Bravo documentary, Searching for Jimi Hendrix ( Friday , Feb. 12.

  • Several critics say this transition is rough but ultimately forgive the film: "If this oddly structured film feels like two short stories stuck together, there is enough solid glue joining them that they resonate off one another deeply" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly dissents, calling the film "an earnest, dogged, squarely rendered wisp of a movie."

  • The only remedy is a presidential mea culpa (or rather, since the ones pushing the culpa are not the person who would actually apologize, a tua culpa ). If Clinton admits his affair to the grand jury and the American public, explains that he lied to protect his daughter and wife, and apologizes with sufficient breadth and--this is important--abjectness, then, well, we'll probably forgive him and call off the dogs.

  • " 'Plath lovers' will never forgive Hughes for having been Plath's lover--a role which in their fantasies they would much better fill."


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