Example Sentences

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And that doesn’t include the tweets from professional, blue-check-marked figures who have condescended to me and belittled my work or expertise.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022

At least a thousand screaming swifts have condescended to spend an hour close to me.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2013

Just now she have condescended to say to me, ''Ow-de-do?' and me, I bow low.

From A Prairie Infanta by Brodhead, Eva Wilder

“No reason why they should, if only Orwell and Isard have condescended to act on my repeated warning, and put the place into a state of defence.”

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram

He would almost as willingly have condescended to snare the noble beast whom he gloried in overcoming in fair chase.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir