Samaritan

Example Sentences

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The 2½-month-old puppy, Peanut, was brought in as a stray on March 9 after being rescued by a good Samaritan in Arcadia, according to Jamie Holeman, chief marketing and communications officer at Pasadena Humane.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

The Samaritan Clinic is a small, free clinic serving people without health insurance in Albany, Georgia.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2026

He was, by all accounts, acting as a Good Samaritan, trying to break up the fight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

Fortunately, a Good Samaritan found the bird and brought it to a local wildlife center in Huntington Beach.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2025

Like the power plant manager who quelled a riot in Huntington Beach, and the mysterious good Samaritan in Tustin who saved a whole bunch of people at a nursing home, then disappeared.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman