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.
• Many people believe that slavery in Latin America was a benevolent institution.
  — Ana Lucia Araujo / Made By History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
• 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
• This is owing to the poverty of the people, and to the large demands upon the funds of the benevolent societies.
  — Heather Andrea Williams, Slate Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Then the benevolent forces of the universe sweep in and collect our broken parts, our flaws and jagged edges, and turn them into works of art.
  — Danielle Pergament, Allure, 9 Nov. 2022
• But even seasoned pilots warn that the air is not benevolent.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2020
• Ayoade will play his son, Tyrannis, who is the benevolent king of Krapopolis, because of course.
  — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2021
• The benevolent warden built them a stilt home with a lovely water view, plus a web of netting to swing on.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• Now the Virgin Mary statue in the corner spread her benevolent arms out over the dead in their Sunday shoes.
  — Evan Allen and Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• 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: 26 Dec 2024