COMPENSATE in a Sentence
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58 example sentences for COMPENSATE, such as:
1. They have a valid claim to compensation.
2. But all trials bring their compensations.
3. Nothing can compensate for losing my husband.
4. This may affect your entitlement to compensation.
5. Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health.
2. But all trials bring their compensations.
3. Nothing can compensate for losing my husband.
4. This may affect your entitlement to compensation.
5. Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health.
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Meanings and Examples of COMPENSATE
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compensate
v. make payment to; compensate
v. make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 The boys dressed themselves, hid their accoutrements, and went off grieving that there were no outlaws any more, and wondering what modern civilization could claim to have done to compensate for their loss.
2 So strong was my desire, that I thought a gratification of it would fully compensate for whatever loss of comforts I should sustain by the exchange.
3 They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything.
4 Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional strength in the others.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
5 The winter, however, was spent cheerfully; and although the spring was uncommonly late, when it came its beauty compensated for its dilatoriness.
6 From his mother he had received only a slight mulatto tinge, amply compensated by its accompanying rich, dark eye.
7 The Bureau invited continued cooperation with benevolent societies, and declared: "It will be the object of all commissioners to introduce practicable systems of compensated labor," and to establish schools.
8 While the work of going from door to door and from office to office is hard, disagreeable, and costly in bodily strength, yet it has some compensations.
9 While my being absent from the school so much unquestionably has its disadvantages, yet there are at the same time some compensations.
10 But all trials bring their compensations.
11 Most timidities have such secret compensations, and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-depreciation.
12 For two months, however, I was true to my determination; for two months I led a life of such severity as I had never before attained to, and enjoyed the compensations of an approving conscience.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
13 But when Zenobia's doctor recommended her looking about for some one to help her with the house-work the clan instantly saw the chance of exacting a compensation from Mattie.
14 Anxious as he was to avoid personal notice, he took, in the printed mention of his name, a pleasure so exquisite and excessive that it seemed a compensation for his shrinking from publicity.
15 That river was to be my compensation for the lost freedom of the farming country.
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 Nothing can compensate for losing my husband.
2 Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health.
3 A baseball player who is not a speedy runner can compensate by powerful hitting.
4 The government now owns a lot of our land — one possibility would be to compensate us with other property.
5 He said improved trade would compensate for the jobs lost to competition from India's world beating out-sourcing and computer software industries.
6 The price of these products will just compensate the cost of equipment and installation of the line.
7 Adding to the poignancy is that, whatever O'Connor's fate, it will have to involve computer trickery and editing sleight-of-hand to compensate for the actor's absence.
8 To ease financial difficulties, farmers could be compensated for their loss of subsidies.
9 You will need to seek professional advice about your claim for compensation.
10 This may affect your entitlement to compensation.
11 Walter argues that the Convention guarantees compensation whenever a citizen is deprived of property.
12 They lodged a compensation claim against the factory.
13 They have a valid claim to compensation.
14 They faced interminable legal hassles if they wanted to claim compensation.
15 If the goods prove defective, the customer has the right to compensation.