How to Use redeeming in a Sentence

redeeming

adjective

• The job's only redeeming feature is the employee discount.
• Both films grind away for almost two and a half hours, stripped of the pop and the rush that are, or ought to be, the redeeming virtue of the genre.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2021
• That has a certain redeeming quality, thinking, ‘This is hard, and these are the risks.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• And most of the time, probably without the redeeming quality of rainbows.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
• The battery on the phone, thankfully, is a redeeming quality.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 28 July 2021
• In the most redeeming moment of the night, and possibly the franchise’s recent history, we are treated to a scene of Jasmine and Alexis hanging out playfully in the hot tub.
  — Katy Primosch, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• These giants eat mostly other snakes, which is a redeeming feature for humans.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2022
• The redeeming feature of Donald Trump was his bottomless cynicism about all this.
  — WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• The Elite has always been a rather strange-looking creation, although its occasional seating for four is something of a redeeming virtue.
  — Mike Knepper, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
• None of her victims has a redeeming quality or generates empathy for their demise.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2022
• But even as the flow of the movie approaches incoherence, then rushes headlong past it, a redeeming strain of brotherly camaraderie takes root, even amid constant sniping and bitching.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• But even as the flow of the movie approaches incoherence, then rushes headlong past it, a redeeming strain of brotherly camaraderie takes root, even amid constant sniping and bitching.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• Kmart’s vast quantities of real estate once considered a possible redeeming quality for its way forward made the vacancies all the more painful to behold.
  — Grace L. Williams, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• White characters are mostly buffoons with no redeeming value.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• Considering the messages shared are rooted in biblical principles of love, forgiveness and empathy, where else will such redeeming traits of living and belonging be instilled?
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2021
• Our Caprice's physical coordination was its most valuable and redeeming quality.
  — Jean Lindamood, Car and Driver, 5 May 2023
• Twitter’s most redeeming qualities are its democratic possibilities.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 7 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024