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How to use recompense in a sentence

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We are disappointed by the failure of the bus company to offer to recompense her.
The wind had quieted, fortunately, but as if in recompense, the snow underneath them had become less firm.
The doors are then thrown open, and the lucky clodpole receives the titbit as his recompense.
When biting the kerb in a Paris street, there is no recompense, no handfuls of clay with which to sign the mould for your own passing bell.
The Church found abundant recompense for the loss of temporal authority in the rediscovery of its spiritual primacy.
Even Alexander the Great had to recompense an Athenian who was robbed on the way to Olympia.
In recompense, he was given a free chicken salad sandwich and all the jelly babies he could eat.
In high-profile cases, the tobacco industry has recently paid enormous amounts to recompense individuals damaged by its products.
They say that they want the United Nations to establish a fund to recompense them for their massive losses.
They are protesting over the Bank's failure to recompense them for produce sold to the now defunct meat plant, but never paid for.
And today we are still fighting to make sure the company makes available enough money to recompense its victims.
Would it be just and equitable for the respondents to receive no recompense for work done?
Councillors are entitled to basic allowances to recompense them for the hours they put in sitting on committees and reading reports and agendas.
I decided that I would give the rapscallion a severe lashing as recompense for his untimely calling.
No one could fail to be moved by the statements of the family and no sentence I can pass may in any way recompense their loss.
Instead, everyone who works in the garden can take produce home in recompense for his or her efforts.
In recompense, he was given a free chicken salad sandwich and all the sweets he could eat.
Before that could go ahead, she had to sign legal documents waiving any right of recompense should the surgery go wrong.
If the club fails to pay back the debt, the bondholders would be given the proceeds from the ticket sales to recompense them.
Now, he obviously can't completely recompense those who lost their loved ones, but he needs to do what he can to do that.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But, as a recompense, we have the Angara before us, that beautifully blue and mighty river gliding past irresistibly, smooth and silent.
This they did as a recompense for our valour and devotion in our country's service.
This was the recompense of which she had dreamed through soul-tearing ages.
Harvey suffered great losses because of the unseaworthiness of the prize ship, and petitioned the King for recompense.
Is not the distinction from their blended and common name a sufficient recompense for all that ambition suffers or foregoes?
It was to the hour of pillage alone they looked for the recompense of their hardihood.
Every condition was as if arranged for a special occasion, or to recompense us for the tedium of the horse latitudes.
The jailing of a seducer offered a tangible recompense for the self-denial which he, as a non-seducer, practiced.
It has passed out of history, and its victims to their rest and recompense.
His vindicative antipathy to you now meets a recompense in the just indignation of Providence.
But beyond his emoluments as a partner in the invention, Alfred Vail had no recompense.
She would gladly recompense the landlady in any way she might think desirable.
I will let you have it without any recompense because she must have a shelter.
This is the prologue of a life filled with miracles, divine recompense accorded only to supernatural virtue.
Holy Missioners, what recompense is reserved for your self-devotion?
And here is your recompense,' said the traveller, offering the young herdsman some small pieces of money.
And to myself I thought of what recompense already had been mine.
I did not take bribes, you see, so I was bound to find a recompense in that, at least.
For my part, I could have gone through a good deal to have won such a recompense.
If the money you took is any recompense for all the trouble I have given you, you are heartily welcome to it.
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