compassionate

Example Sentences

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"I would have been a bit more compassionate towards Kaylem if he did stop and he did help my son who was lying there unconscious," Buckley said.

From BBC

Describing her as "so kind and very compassionate", he praised Swift for chatting to everyone involved with the video, but admitted that "security was very hot".

From BBC

Maggie was moved to the Brooklyn home of a compassionate female Spiritualist where she died, just before sunrise, on March 8, 1893, at the age of fifty-nine.

From Literature

Cancer patient Nathaniel Dye - who worked on the bill with Leadbeater - said it would allow people a death which was "as kind and compassionate as possible".

From BBC

“I think that we have gone a little bit too far in allowing leniency and trying to be compassionate,” he said, “and sometimes maybe forgetting what it was that victims went through.”

From Los Angeles Times