Sample Sentences for

complimentary

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

Unlike many countries, in the United States water is typically complimentary with a meal.

I liked the Dandelion Lady, nicknamed for her shock of white hair, who ate one egg and chips from Monday to Thursday and sat reading the complimentary newspapers and drinking her way through two cups of tea.  (source) Jojo Moyes, Me Before You, 2012

He slipped the cryptex back in his pocket and watched warily as the visitors went to a nearby table, left a donation in the cup, and restocked on the complimentary grave-rubbing supplies set out by the abbey.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

For some reason Uhmma had enough money that year to get a small individual photo, unlike the other years when all we brought home was the complimentary class picture.  (source) An Na, A Step from Heaven, 2001

Participants tweeted their viewing selections during the storm, and a hundred would be selected for complimentary annual Netflix subscriptions.  (source) Ling Ma, Severance, 2019

There were a series of complimentary toasts to the guest of honor.

The article was complimentary of the agency.

She's complimentary about not just our costumes but how we conducted ourselves.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

With these attributes, however, he would not remain as inconspicuous as we wished him to: that year, the school buzzed with talk about him defending Tom Robinson, none of which was complimentary.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Something, Eve suspected, uncomplimentary.†  (source) J. D. Robb, Glory in Death, 1995

I could tell he wanted to please me, but since he couldn't make a long complimentary speech, he said everything with his eyes.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Major Sanderson's disposition seemed to mellow as he reeled off the uncomplimentary adjectives.†  (source) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

Among them was Winston Churchill, who wrote a book about it, and we still call one of the peaks Churchill's Picket even though he was not very complimentary about our people.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

Prins did not appear to be listening, and when I had finished he said, "Ag, Mandela, your wife is only seeking publicity" I told him that I resented his remark, and before I had even finished, he uttered something so offensive and uncomplimentary about my wife that I immediately lost my temper.†  (source) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994

Sometimes at the flea market, Afghan acquaintances made remarks about Baba's weight loss. At first, they were complimentary. They even asked the secret to his diet. But the queries and compliments stopped when the weight loss didn't.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

By the way, I hope you understood, too, that some apparently uncomplimentary references to Slubgob were purely jocular.†  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1942

Some mentor, family friend, or schoolmate who gave timely advice, made an introduction, or put in a complimentary word?  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

The exclamation, to me so surprising—for why was Miss West an arrant feminist for making a possibly true if uncomplimentary statement about the other sex?†  (source) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1928