Example sentences for: generous

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

  • “ Wise, just, and generous,” a contemporary Muslim historian said of her, “but she was not born of the right sex and so all the virtues were worthless. ”

  • The final plan, which the Finance Committee reported out in 1972, was remarkably generous--certainly more generous than the welfare reform enacted a few years ago of which both Gore and his boss the president brag.

  • With "compassionate conservatism," he, too, is banking on a sense that the public wants to think of itself as generous again now: generous, caring, altruistic and--yes, let's face it--liberal.

  • Wyeth marketed Fen-Phen by funding obesity research centers, launching public fitness campaigns, contracting with a medical education company to produce a series of ghostwritten journal articles, and making generous payments to academic physicians who then published extensively and testified for the drug's safety to the Food and Drug Administration [17].

  • As I said, I don't want to suggest that Bill Gates isn't a generous person nor even that his giving doesn't represent considerable sacrifice on his part (though it must be nice to be able to give that kind of money away).


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