How to Use benevolent in a Sentence

benevolent

adjective

• They tore out the windows of the club's simple storefront and bricked them over and left two much smaller windows … so that the look of the club changed from that of a benevolent neighborhood organization to that of a paramilitary one.
  — "The Talk of the Town",
• He belonged to several benevolent societies and charitable organizations.
• And, perversely, how the state is coopting the very tools of that benevolent movement to tighten control on its citizens.
  — Time, 2 Apr. 2018
• Fame is important because no matter how benevolent or worthy someone’s actions may be, people must know about them.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 4 Apr. 2018
• His pitch was for Ironborne Brew Works, a benevolent brewpub that gives part of beer tab profits to charity.
  — Marcia Pledger, cleveland.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Suddenly our golden god of technology didn't seem so benevolent anymore.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 20 Mar. 2018
• Beneath their benevolent shade is an excellent place for tender understory plants, and I picture that a cacao tree would thrive in the shady protection from cold spells and wind.
  — Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 6 Apr. 2018
• Not to mention, the lady’s benevolent gesture would help in the tally to defray the cost of our wedding gift, not a simple mission considering the main course was going to be chicken.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Instead of destroying the distraction once and for all, Wilson lets the simulation linger on, with he and his new pals set to rule it as benevolent billionaire oligarchs.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2018
• Instead the team thinks the best fit is the more benevolent scenario.
  — National Geographic, 4 Apr. 2016
• But there are forms of AI that ought to be more benevolent than that, right?
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2024
• Kish asked the benevolent Boston dad to pack his knives and go.
  — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2024
• Among the many myths and claims, there is the theory of a benevolent Mothman.
  — Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
• Out here, in nature and benevolent hands, guns seem to me more sporty than evil.
  — Rachel Levin, Bon Appétit, 19 Sep. 2022
• One goal is to counter the idea that the United States is a benevolent actor in the Middle East.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• These days, the set list is mostly old songs, and the vibe is largely benevolent.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• Can the drone shot be benevolent, or, at the very least, objective?
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Break is being spread by the four Tantas, once benevolent rulers who’ve gone mad from it.
  — George Yang, Variety, 23 Jan. 2023
• Today, the state’s modern army of scribes presents Xi as just this type of benevolent ruler.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• As a boy, Amleth lives in a benevolent corner of this world.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• Those who take them should get the setting right—a safe place, with benevolent people and a sober friend around.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2019
• Grey-haired Tom presided over the place in a silent, benevolent manner.
  — Angela Rocco Decarlo, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• As Ely puts it in his author’s note, medicine must be more than benevolent.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
• Their goal is to become the world’s favorite benevolent brand.
  — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• The two priests’ faith in a benevolent God is tested to the absolute limit.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 4 Oct. 2022
• The marshals, too, were a benevolent presence in their lives.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
• But the once-benevolent king appears to have succumbed to avarice and begun meddling with the book of creation.
  — Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• She was taught to read and write by the benevolent mistress whose family owned her.
  — Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• At the time of Esther’s musing, in the spring of 1911, those attentions seem benevolent.
  — Wendy Smith, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
• Other clips depict him as an obsessive artist, poring over every detail, incapable of leaving the studio, and as a benevolent and jovial kingpin with a private plane and a distressing number of tracksuits, a hookah always smoldering.
  — Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024