How to Use charitable in a Sentence

charitable

adjective
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  • Half of the class has a chance at passing the test, and that is a charitable estimate.
  • He performs charitable work to help the poor.
  • She has tried to be charitable about her sister's problems.
  • They give money to charitable causes.
  • She makes a charitable donation every year.
  • Was Pye at least charitable enough to let them out after lunch?
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The charitable podcast to support their staffers while on strike will air its remaining episodes.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Managers said the three had been hired through grants from charitable foundations, and so they were excluded from the layoff process.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time Irving has made charitable donations through the GoFundMe medium.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 22 July 2023
  • The co-founder and owner said his vision was to create a course that would attract the best amateur golfers from around the world to Trinity and to use the club as a way to fund charitable donations.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 7 May 2023
  • Last year, Bezos pledged to donate most of his wealth to charitable causes within his lifetime.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • As part of her charitable work to help raise awareness about the dangers of landmines, and to help the survivors of them, Diana travels to Bosnia and walks through a minefield in front of photographers.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The charitable or naïve might be inclined to dismiss the significance of these calls for a return to the darkest days of the pandemic as mere curiosities.
    — The Editors, National Review, 31 Aug. 2023
  • So why were they buried in a charitable hospital cemetery?
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Families will celebrate the day with prayer, the exchange of gifts, charitable giving, and feasting.
    — USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
  • Strickland attributes his charitable spirit to his mother, who instilled in him the importance of giving back from a young age.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 19 Dec. 2023
  • More people are now turning to the charitable food system, including pantries like Gather, to make up the difference.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
  • Kate Middleton and Prince William are capping off the coronation weekend on a charitable note.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
  • For Webb and Norden, the past decade has included recovery, the establishment of their own charitable foundation and the birth of their first child, Ella.
    — Jeff Glor, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Those tax savings then become a direct source of new funding for charitable causes.
    — Karla D’alleva Valas, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • O’Keefe, who relied on mutual aid and charitable donations during the strike, is struggling to find work.
    — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Regulars at the Bloomingdale tavern, faces from the bar scene and teams from local breweries pledge to shave their heads in exchange for charitable donations.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • This factor looks at how charitable a country's people are.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
  • That mission, the Wings for Life Foundation, is a charitable organization with the sole purpose to cure spinal cord injury through research.
    — Andy Frye, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • The charitable evening, which raised a record $1.8 million, concluded with a nightcap of cognac and Irish coffee on the terrace overlooking the Manhattan skyline.
    — Mario Abad, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
  • According to IndyCar's release, there will be a charitable component to the weekend that will be announced at a later date.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Trebek and his wife Jean first formed the Trebek Family Foundation for charitable giving in 2011.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Falling donations, rising need Donors — San Diegans who carve out some of their budget for charitable giving — have been hit by the same wave of high prices and inflation as those who visit food banks and pantries.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • After the death of her mother in 2018, Marsh helped set up a charitable foundation to fund research into pancreatic cancer and help care for patients.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The pair announced their charitable foundation Thursday in a joint Instagram video.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023

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