Example sentences for: forgiven

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

  • A "conventional thinker" might be forgiven for concluding from this record that what raises revenues is raising taxes, not cutting them.

  • The fundamental implausibility of As Good As It Gets , in which Jack Nicholson's character magically evolves from a toxic slime ball to an adorably vulnerable neurotic, can be forgiven as a Hollywood fantasy, but there are details scattered throughout the movie that just do not compute.

  • Freud, of course, is hardly touchy-feely, but Analyze This is funny enough to be forgiven its muddling of therapeutic modes.

  • And even in Victorian England--and in the America of Dole's youth--a man's infidelity was forgiven more readily than his desertion.

  • Canada's most influential newspaper, the Toronto Globe and Mail , said Monday in an editorial that the reason Americans had forgiven Clinton his lies and misdemeanors was that he was a victim of entrapment--"by a politically motivated independent prosecutor ...


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