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Example sentences for: pardon

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

It would be helpful if you had a religion that you started with and said you wished to retain but, failing that, tell the theologian that you are making a new beginning: that he has your blessings, pardon the expression, to pursue the religion of his choice ...
“I beg your pardon,” she said somewhat stuffily.
The pardon fuss, on other hand, is simply absurd.
Although many Justice Department officials are opposed to a pardon, Carter says Hearst--now Patricia Hearst Shaw--has been a model citizen and mother since he commuted her sentence in 1979.
His daughter having noticed that the death-warrant was expected from London, attired herself in men's clothes, and twice attacked and robbed the mails (between Belford and Berwick), which conveyed the death-warrants; thus, by delaying the execution, giving time to Sir John Cochrane's father, the Earl of Dundonald, to make interest with Father Peter (a Jesuit), King James's Confessor, who, for the sum of five thousand pounds [something like $5 million today], agreed to intercede with his Royal Master in favour of Sir John Cochrane, and to procure his pardon; which was effected.