How to Use largesse in a Sentence

largesse

noun
  • He relied on the largesse of friends after he lost his job.
  • The question, of course, is the degree of the largesse.
    Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 June 2017
  • Nowhere else in the country offers up the same kind of largesse.
    Kathleen Hackett, ELLE Decor, 9 July 2015
  • This largesse appears to have helped at least set a floor...
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2019
  • Last year, the Smiths’ largesse covered the adoption fees for 46 cats and dogs.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2018
  • Most of the country doesn’t receive such largesse, of course.
    Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2017
  • These are not the people who enjoyed the largesse of the postwar golden age.
    James Chappel, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But track and field has always come in for more than its fair share of the company’s largesse.
    oregonlive, 30 Nov. 2021
  • For adult children on the receiving end of parental largesse, the help can come as a blessing or a curse.
    USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Yet this largesse has not changed the economics of the electric car market.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2018
  • Despite the largesse, there are concerns that millions of people will still fall through the cracks.
    Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 18 Mar. 2020
  • That speaks well of the man footing the bill, Barry Diller, who mixed largesse with vigilance.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 June 2021
  • Lee wields Washington’s charm and largesse against him.
    K. Austin Collins, HWD, 2 May 2018
  • Brown was asked if medal expectations come with the largesse.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Companies used their newfound largesse to buy back shares of their stock.
    Christine Romans, CNN, 17 Oct. 2019
  • But moderates in the House and Senate fear the country will rebel against such largesse and want cuts in the price and the ambition of the package.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The target of Kelsey’s largesse is aware of the spending, though unfamiliar with the man behind it.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Hardly any of this largesse was trickling down to the actual soldiers fighting the war, by the way.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2021
  • The linebacker corps may be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the NCAA’s largesse.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Almost every one has attributed its largesse to the tax cut bill, but that's just PR.
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The initial installation is just a taste of the Keithleys’ largesse.
    Steven Litt, cleveland, 25 June 2020
  • How McConnell doles out that largesse is another part of the puzzle.
    Michael McAuliff, Kaiser Health News, 30 June 2017
  • Perhaps the good news for investors is that Draghi’s largesse won’t last forever.
    Simon Ballard, Bloomberg.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The bag could contain anything—a lucky gift of largesse, a biro, an apron, chilli sauce, a copy of next month’s gossip magazine.
    A.a. Gill, A-LIST, 4 July 2018
  • Stuck in prison, cut off from his union paychecks and pension, and the largesse of his mob friends, Sheeran watched his finances dwindle.
    Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Most notably missing is a list of promising high-tech candidates for the pot’s largesse.
    The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
  • That largesse may have made the gas tax holiday a no-brainer for lawmakers, but more debates over the levy could be on the way.
    Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Ryan, on his own, has also benefited from the Youngkins’ largesse.
    Washington Post, 22 June 2012
  • But he's now locked into the job by the largesse of his contract and the lack of better options for a 65-year-old whose best coaching days are likely behind him.
    USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • That system may be flawed, but at least enrollment in a public school doesn’t require a waiting list or depend on the largesse of a billionaire or an employer.
    Elliot Haspel, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024

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