Example Sentences

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The new ruling means that within the next two months Google must come up with proposals explaining how it will recompense companies for the use of their news.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2021

“Who will recompense the ruined men?” asked Antonello Piroso, writing in the daily La Verita.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2018

If you think a gold chain will recompense me for my dead child, base hound, you are greatly mistaken.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John

I hope the extra thousand will recompense you for the temporary inconvenience to which I was unfortunately compelled to put you.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

So are we, madam; which we will recompense With all the love and kindness that we may: His artful sport 228 drives all sad thoughts away.

From The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 by Dyce, Alexander