Example Sentences

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Pardonably proud was Father Divine to announce last week that he had bought a new Heaven, an estate in an exclusive neighborhood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pardonably, I hope, I wished to eat bread without baker for my breakfast; but how could I probe this dreadful problem?

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

Pardonably startled, the waitress demanded with the rising inflection: "Wha-a-at?"

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.