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Example sentences for: forgive

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

Also, please forgive me for the off-color stories I told at tea last week.
Yet West doesn't exonerate victims of racism for irresponsibility or criminality (something for which his critics on the conventional academic left, like Adolph Reed, can't forgive him).
She can't forgive herself for a tragic accident on her property, and in ways that I'm still trying to sort out, she helps to bring about her own--and her family's--near ruin.
So why is one inclined to forgive this book's faults?
So forgive me if I am sparing in my recounting of the action.