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"Compliment" in a Sentence (17 examples)
It was meant as a compliment, so I didn't want to tell him that he had missed the point.
The shy boy blushed at her compliment.
He paid me the compliment of listening.
He paid me a compliment.
They paid their compliment to me.
They paid a high compliment to the speaker.
She felt herself flattered by this compliment.
I'll take that as a compliment.
Please compliment her on my behalf.
In some cultures, a resounding belch after a meal is considered a compliment to the chef.
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[…] I met him With customary compliment; when he, Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and So leaves me to consider what is breeding That changeth thus his manners.
[...] what honour that, but tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies, Outlandish flatteries?
Virtue indeed meets many a rhiming friend, And many a compliment politely penn’d,
He told the Captain, He was heartily sorry for his Misfortunes; tho’ in my Opinion that was nothing but a Compliment: For, as I found afterwards, he was more brutish, and dishonest, than most of the other Kings on the Island […]
This accomplished man condescended to think of a young girl, and take the pains to talk to her, not with absurd compliment, but with an appeal to her understanding, and sometimes with instructive correction.
[…] She transferr'd the curs'd Advice, / That Monarchs ſhould their inward Soul diſguise, / Diſſemble, and command; be falſe, and wiſe; / By ignominous Arts for ſervile Ends / Should compliment their Foes, and ſhun their Friends.
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