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How to use redeeming in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective, noun

Redeeming means compensating for the faults of someone or something. Example: “His lack of punctuality was offset by his redeeming sense of humor.”

Examples of redeeming by meaning

adjectiveCompensating for the faults of someone or something.

  • His lack of punctuality was offset by his redeeming sense of humor.
  • There are few redeeming features, if any, about the London Midland Region winter timetable.1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 592

More sentences with redeeming

  • She wasn't kind or smart, attractive or even funny. Her only redeeming feature was that she was fantastic in bed.From the entry in bed
  • The movie was bad, but it wasn't all bad, as it had the redeeming quality of spreading a positive message to choose peace and love.From the entry redeeming quality
  • While Domo Genesis’ flow on the album gets repetitive at times, there are certainly redeeming moments.2016, Domo Genesis’ new album is reminiscent of Odd Future ties, Badger Herald. From the entry mid-pubescent
  • Our friendship with Jesus Christ is the redeeming quality that takes our personality from unsavory to save-worthy.2015, Trisha Priebe, A Sherlock Holmes Devotional. From the entry saveworthy
  • Pontius is rejecting and redeeming his manhood by punishing its essence.2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume…. From the entry remasculinize
  • The father is required to give the Kohen "five shekels of silver" for redeeming the bekhor ("firstborn").1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 287. From the entry bekhor
  • Fortunately, God, in his infinite and redeeming mercy, had also sent down a tight-abbed, small-boned Chinese-Chicana woman to rescue the innocents.2011, David Brooks, The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens. From the entry abbed
  • Gómez Arias, like don Álvaro, dies without our feeling a batsqueak of regret because neither is given any redeeming features.2002, Melveena McKendrick, "Men Behaving Badly", Identities in Crisis, Reichenberger 2002, p. 220. From the entry batsqueak
  • The priesthood sold the land when it became apparent that its donor had no intention of redeeming it.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 755. From the entry priesthood
  • Dionne herself is thinly drawn, a cool girl carrying tarot cards, a Rizla-rolling version of the manic pixie dream girl, tasked with redeeming the hero.2026 April 28, Shahidha Bari, “Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest review – painfully earnest tale of trauma and transition”, in The…. From the entry rizla
  • Elsewhere, sugarcube-sweetness softens the acid-edges of Cope’s ‘spike Parliament’ fantasy “Psychedelic Revolution”, while there is even affection redeeming “Liver As Big As Hartlepool”.2015 April, Jim Wirth, “Live: Rocking in the Free World; Julian Cope, Village Underground, London, January 29, 2015”, in John Mulvey…. From the entry sugarcube
  • We are confronted with saving our entire Pleistocene legacy, with redeeming creation, beyond big bangs and white dwarfs and any and all apocalypses.2008, Richard Grossinger, “Third Cycle”, in The Bardo of Waking Life, Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry lumination
  • European Union, the redeeming parathesis of Europe's higher unity, is not a federation or a confederation, actual or potential, but a state of mind.2000, Alan Dashwood, Angela Ward, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies Vol 2, 1999, page 59. From the entry parathesis

Meaning of redeeming

  1. adjective Compensating for the faults of someone or something.
  2. adjective Able to save people from sin, error or evil.
  3. noun An act of redemption.

Full definition of redeeming

Questions about redeeming in a sentence

How do you use redeeming in a sentence?
Redeeming is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “His lack of punctuality was offset by his redeeming sense of humor.”
What is a short sentence with redeeming?
“Pontius is rejecting and redeeming his manhood by punishing its essence.”
What does redeeming mean?
Redeeming means compensating for the faults of someone or something.

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