compliment

Example Sentences

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It’s the singer’s most sonically cohesive set, but this time that’s not necessarily a compliment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

He was a keen student of dialect; doing movies in the South, he meandered down backroads, learning just the right way to frame a question in rural Mississippi or deliver a compliment in west Texas.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

Slot was full of praise for Robertson saying that "the way he speaks is a big compliment".

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

Tom Donaldson, head of Lego's Creative Play Lab, said the tech intended to respond to children's actions and compliment the way they naturally play.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

“You mathematician! I wish you could at least pay a compliment without arithmetic! Eight from nineteen is eleven. Twice as pretty every year...Goodness, I’m twenty-two times as pretty!”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham