Example Sentences

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“He wasn’t lamenting his own situation so much as he was listening to the stories of other people. That speaks to a generousness he had as a person.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2021

Now when I see all my fellow dancers reflected in the mirror around me, I see not how harmonious our movements are, but how their slight frames magnify the generousness of my own.

From The Guardian • May 28, 2018

His answers illuminate the importance of the current results and put them into a broader context, and also demonstrate his generousness as a scholar and dad.

From Scientific American • Sep. 16, 2011

It had been fuller, rounder, with a generousness of volume that had vindicated that singing throat.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack

Until to-day, either of them in the generousness of his spirit would have stepped gladly aside for the other.

From The Desert Valley by Gregory, Jackson