Example Sentences

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Villa fans are forgiving if you work hard and give 100%.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2022

“Virginians are forgiving people, who believe in second chances,” Northam said in a statement.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2022

Leonsis’s teams are forgiving to a fault in keeping decision-makers in place while Lerner’s Nats, in a dozen years, have barely had a smudge on their civic reputation.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2017

Or perhaps it’s because they are forgiving, as Ralph Reed told Lauren Fox of Talking Points Memo.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2016

While you are forgiving that man, you'd better think how much forgiveness I need for having stopped taking bread of the panaderia in the heart of winter, when they needed the money so badly!

From Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East by Bamford, Mary E. (Mary Ellen)