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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    Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity.  (source)
    Philanthropic = those who help others -- especially by donating money
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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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    ...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)
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    Word of his generosity quickly got around, which inspired other philanthropists — unwilling to be outdone — to send even more money; and before long people everywhere were sending gifts to the Washingtons, who were growing rich.†  (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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    A philanthropist and friend of labor  (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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