Sample sentences for INDEMNIFY

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Definition

to secure against future loss, damage, or liability; or to make amends for or pay compensation for

This plan indemnifies workers against wages lost through illness

The law would permit punitive damages against corporate officers, and their firms could not indemnify them.
The insurance company indemnifies us against extraordinary loss.
The government argued for a narrowdefinition, wanting to restrict the number of our people who would qualify for an indemnity.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
As for Fix, he said to himself that the Bank of England would certainly not come out of this affair well indemnified.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
'Those persons are indemnified by me.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
He added that an indemnity was due him.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Poor indemnity for natural rights of self-agency so pertinaciously, so insultingly denied!
Edgar Allan Poe -- William Wilson
They offer not only indemnity, but rewards, to such of the persons themselves that are so marked, if they will act against their countrymen.
Thomas More -- Utopia
The sessions are held in the chief town of every county, and the jury are indemnified for their attendance either by the State or the parties concerned.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
Forty-thousand-dollar death benefit, double indemnity if he or she died in a train crash, a plane crash, or a fire.
Stephen King -- The Shining
It was an imperfect system of reparation and indemnity, but it was a secret and highly venerated law of the Corps.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Our Order soon adopted bolder and wider views, and found out a better indemnification for our sacrifices.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

Yunkai and her allies will require an indemnity of us, to be paid in gold and gemstones.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
And yes, there were precautions administrators took to indemnify themselves against all eventualities.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
I'd introduced Andie to noir—to Bogart and The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, all the classics.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
Permit me then to ascend the rock, singly; I promise a perfect indemnity to your kinsman, against any injury his effects may sustain.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
It was the first payment on a forty-thousand-dollar policy that in the event of death by accidental means, paid double indemnity.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
Here the state guarantees kicked in, and Wennerström was indemnified.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Her beauty, her pink cheeks and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her, and to purchase indemnity for every fault.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

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