Sample Sentences for
philanthropy
(editor-reviewed)

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    From a little distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.  (source)
    philanthropist = someone who donates money to worthy causes
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    ...a man famous in Hiroshima for his showy philanthropies...  (source)
    philanthropies = actions taken to help others -- probably by donating money
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    ...he yet did not appear to enjoy that mental serenity, that inward content, which should be the reward of every sincere Christian and practical philanthropist.  (source)
    philanthropist = helping others
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    I could pretend I belonged to the Howard Avenue Civic League or some other fictitious philanthropy.  (source)
    philanthropy = an organization that helps others
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    This is where she gets to call out the names of anyone late on their dues or tardy for meetings or not fulfilling their philanthropic duties.  (source)
    philanthropic = helping others
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    The music center project had been foundering despite a $50 million donation from the wife of Walt Disney, but local philanthropist Eli Broad stepped in after her death and willed the Gehry-designed hall into existence, with a grand opening in 2003.  (source)
    philanthropist = someone who helps others -- especially by donating money to worthy causes
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    What I saw in him—as evidently as the indestructible ramparts of Old Ticonderoga, already cited as the most appropriate simile—was the features of stubborn and ponderous endurance, which might well have amounted to obstinacy in his earlier days; of integrity, that, like most of his other endowments, lay in a somewhat heavy mass, and was just as unmalleable or unmanageable as a ton of iron ore; and of benevolence which, fiercely as he led the bayonets on at Chippewa or Fort Erie, I take to be of quite as genuine a stamp as what actuates any or all the polemical philanthropists of the age.†  (source)
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    I've already established scholarships for young people from this previously economically depressed region as well as other philanthropies.†  (source)
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    in his version he had gone philanthropically to the rescue of a drunken friend.  (source)
    philanthropically = in a manner that helps others
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    Mr. Wren, apparently your family's philanthropy does not buy you the time it used to  (source)
    philanthropy = helping of others
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    the strength of philanthropic dollars  (source)
    philanthropic = given as charity from the wealthy
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    EARLY IN May, Peter Keating departed for Washington, to supervise the construction of a museum donated to the city by a great philanthropist easing his conscience.  (source)
    philanthropist = someone who helps others -- especially by donating money to worthy causes
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    The money was scarce, and Burton often had to go begging to foundations and philanthropists.†  (source)
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