Example sentences for: forgiving

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

  • If a company underperforms expectations early in the year, the market is more forgiving, since there is still time for the company to recover before year's end.

  • Murdoch's upscale newspaper, the Times, welcomed what it saw as a new public tolerance in the generally favorable response to Brown's admission of his homosexuality and said Monday that "the media appear to be lagging behind the electorate whose mores reflect a more forgiving view of what they expect of their MPs.

  • Morris' book, Behind the Oval Office , ends with a conversation between him and Bill Clinton on why the forgiving St. Patrick is better than the stern St. Paul.

  • Most people in the investment world, however, are not that forgiving of LTCM.

  • If stock prices really were being driven solely by inflated margin balances and the overconfidence bred by years of 20 percent plus returns, you'd expect investors to be forgiving.


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