Example Sentences

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Some relationships do redemptively transform for the better and evolve into a much more nourishing and aligned version of however they existed before.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2025

Writing in this paper in 2012, Mark Lawson put her cross-gender appeal down to the way “she deals sympathetically and redemptively with male fecklessness and helplessness”.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2020

A photo of a man at a diner is a carefully structured mélange of color and pattern, with a townscape refracted through a window and sprinkled, redemptively, with a confetti of light.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2019

It was a typically Grammy-like mix of the stodgy and the trying-to-be-relevant, notable mostly because Aguilera redemptively remembered all the words she'd been obliged to sing.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2011

It would be truer to think of them as returning redemptively to their roots.

From Time Magazine Archive