Example sentences for: philanthropist

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

  • Salon has run a series of articles alleging that right-wing philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife paid off David Hale, a Whitewater witness.

  • But his genius as a philanthropist is secular: He brings capitalist hucksterism to religious charity.

  • Chernow's verdict: He was both (as well as a skirt chaser, a pathological tightwad, and a philanthropist whose giving was motivated by PR concerns).

  • This should be the Santa for our time: a Soros of the North Pole, Santa the philanthropist.

  • This makes the black intellectual not only a propagandist but also an apologist, at times, of the most hypocritical sort, blowing up trivialities while ignoring profundities because of their ambiguous nature, all the while operating with the urges of a philanthropist, discarding merit in the name of equality of space or for "educating" the public in favor of a good cause.


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