compassionate

Example Sentences

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Maggie was moved to the Brooklyn home of a compassionate female Spiritualist where she died, just before sunrise, on March 8, 1893, at the age of fifty-nine.

From Literature

Cancer patient Nathaniel Dye - who worked on the bill with Leadbeater - said it would allow people a death which was "as kind and compassionate as possible".

From BBC

“I think that we have gone a little bit too far in allowing leniency and trying to be compassionate,” he said, “and sometimes maybe forgetting what it was that victims went through.”

From Los Angeles Times

I am generally a compassionate person, so I sometimes wonder whether I should help him financially.

From MarketWatch

Then her luck seemed to turn: She found unexpected love with a compassionate former U.S.

From Los Angeles Times