Charity

//ˈtʃæɹɪti//

"Charity" in a Sentence (22 examples)

The generous dentist contributed some two billion yen to charity.

Charity begins at home.

The charity is named after a man who gave away some two billion yen.

The artists pledged to contribute all his property to charity.

They accredit him with the secret charity.

She became Mother Teresa years later when she founded the Missionaries of Charity.

The opera singer held a charity concert of his own accord.

A generous man contributed some two billion yen to charity.

Private charity is only a drop in the bucket.

I don't need any bit of your charity.

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‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.

The event raised money for local charities.

He donated half his earnings to charity.

give to charity

registered charity

act of charity

July 20, 1677, John Mitchell Mason, letter to a friend Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou witl judge others with the judgment of charity.

You go fuck yourself. You think I'm in this for charity?

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.

By Gis and by Saint Charity, / Alack, and fie for shame!

Never did any woman better deserve her name, which was Charity — Aunt Charity, as everybody called her. And like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of well-saved dollars.

Tessa giggled. 'What a dreadful name! Is she really called Charity?' 'Yes. She really is.' Mark recalled how glorious the name of Charity had sounded to him in the beginning. 'It's not her fault she's called Charity,' he added defensively.

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