pardonable in a sentence
Examples
- I had, however, gratified a pardonable journalistic ambition in being the first correspondent to reach him and to give him news of the world, after his long period of African darkness.
- He excused his own betrayal of Athens, saying for a man " it was pardonable to plot evil against a man who was his enemy even to the disadvantage of the state ".
- "We're already last in reading scores, and now we're trying to hit rock bottom in math, " said Assembly Republican Steve Baldwin, with pardonable sarcasm.
- The offbeat plot ( with its unusual notions about when it's appropriate to get away with murder ) is bolstered by modest helpings of whimsical or ironic humor and doses of pardonable sentiment.
- Nicodemus gives the following example for the seven classes of sin . " The initial movement of anger is pardonable; near to the pardonable is for someone to say harsh words and get hot-tempered.
- Nicodemus gives the following example for the seven classes of sin . " The initial movement of anger is pardonable; near to the pardonable is for someone to say harsh words and get hot-tempered.
- William Congreve wrote of love, money and the madness of an old man in love, saying : " If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable ."
- An act which is against the monk's code of discipline ( Vinaya ) committed by someone who was " ummatta "-" out of his mind " was said by the Buddha to be pardonable.
- "A year ago we were picked to finish last in the Pac-10, " he said with pardonable pride, " but this year we'll probably be picked to finish in the top third ."
- He mentions that, " For indeed after the lapse of many years, . . . St . Columba was excommunicated by a certain synod for some pardonable and very trifling reasons, and indeed unjustly " ( P . 79-80 ).