Example Sentences

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Compromising probably would require money — perhaps tax money — to pay farmers to fallow their land and governments to build new canals and repair old ones.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2023

Compromising in the name of music can be hard with such a band makeup.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022

The Tee-Tee Tapes: Compromising videos of the president swinging and missing a golf ball.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018

Compromising a targeted person is a standard technique employed by the Russian intelligence agency.

From Salon • May 28, 2017

Compromising paragraphs in the society paper having been explained away, the two declare their mutual love, and soon they are caught by other couples in the act of dancing and kissing.

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.