Example Sentences

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Stacey: What if the outside voice tells you the bride may have been preoccupied, understandably and forgivably so, on her wedding day?

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2016

Having recently hit 221.2 on the scale, I’m no longer forgivably chubby or husky, zaftig or big-boned.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2015

Beckert, perhaps forgivably, spends little time exploring how this happened—there’s only so much you can devote to that past 40 years, when this new trend emerged, in a book that covers half a millennium.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2014

It was a lovely evening of music and forgivably escapist on a day of so many dark thoughts elsewhere.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2014

And the American imagination, always receptive of the romantic, might readily and forgivably have pictured villas, maids in durance vile, and sword-thrusts under the moonlight.

From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison