COMPROMISE in a Sentence

Learn COMPROMISE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
82 example sentences for COMPROMISE, such as:
1. We made a compromise of everything.
2. The discussion eventuated in a compromise.
3. My natural inclination is to find a compromise.
4. A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
5. We compromise her safety, perhaps, by staying here.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of COMPROMISE
compromise
 v.  settle by concession
 v.  expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  You'll understand that better, when I tell you it's a question that might compromise me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVI
2  As I thought that I might compromise him if I went too often to the Castle, I made this communication by letter.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVII
3  I think there was some compromise in the cap; but otherwise she was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
4  We made a compromise of everything.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
5  'I have kept your name and reputation for you, and your peace and quiet, and your house and home too,' said Uriah, with a sulky, hurried, defeated air of compromise.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
6  One would think you were afraid my society would compromise you.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 17
7  We compromise her safety, perhaps, by staying here.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
8  Thus, the mummers having gathered hither from scattered points each came with his own tenets on early and late; and they waited a little longer as a compromise.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
9  He did not even desire Clym's absence, since it was just possible that Eustacia might resent any situation which could compromise her dignity as a wife, whatever the state of her heart towards him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
10  His method is as follows: He allows it to be known that he is prepared to pay very high sums for letters which compromise people of wealth and position.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
11  You say that you have five letters which compromise the Countess d'Albert.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
12  This compromise satisfied the commons, who thought they would thus get rid of the consulship, and secure the highest offices of the State for their own order.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVII.
13  This last compromise was a hasty bit of legislation, vague and uncertain in outline.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
14  Naturally the Negroes resented, at first bitterly, signs of compromise which surrendered their civil and political rights, even though this was to be exchanged for larger chances of economic development.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
15  To-day the two groups of Negroes, the one in the North, the other in the South, represent these divergent ethical tendencies, the first tending toward radicalism, the other toward hypocritical compromise.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  It looks as though a compromise agreement has now been reached.
2  Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
3  A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
4  The spokesman made it clear that no compromise was yet in sight.
5  Where our children's education is concerned, no compromise is acceptable.
6  The couple made several unsuccessful attempts at a compromise.
7  The discussion eventuated in a compromise.
8  After much discussion the negotiators hammered out a compromise settlement.
9  Encourage your child to reach a compromise between what he wants and what you want.
10  If moderates fail to reach a compromise , the extremists will dominate the agenda.
11  The foreign ministers have thrashed out a suitable compromise formula.
12  The group has taken a militant position on the abortion issue and is refusing to compromise.
13  My natural inclination is to find a compromise.
14  The decision appears to be a face-saving compromise which will allow the government to remain in office.
15  It is best to try to seek a compromise rather than a perfect solution.