How to Use recompense in a Sentence

recompense

noun
Definition of recompensenext
Synonyms for recompensenext
  • He is asking for a just recompense for the work he's done.
  • Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 2 Aug. 2022
  • In most crimes, there is some way to repair the damage, some way to right the balance and recompense the victim.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • As a recompense to the victims, the firm is offering this service free for a year.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The more junior bond due in 2022 will be second in the queue and its holders won’t be looking forward to much recompense.
    — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The recompense for those who can manage all this can be substantial.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 July 2022
  • True Grit, then, could be seen as a kind of offer in recompense, a tribute to these women and their stern elegance.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Later, a group of masked robbers showed up back at the house, demanding recompense.
    — Dale Eisinger, Billboard, 25 June 2017
  • Each country intended the gesture to act as recompense for the forcible exile of Jews in the 1490s, in one of the first acts of the Spanish Inquisition.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • What’s the right recompense for these kinds of allegations?
    — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Slaughter of the Houthis, indiscriminate bombing, famine, cholera — as recompense to the Saudis for the Iran deal?
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 13 July 2017
  • Their hopes for full recompense from McDonald’s were thwarted by the court ruling.
    — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The playful universe seemed to be offering recompense: The ground is no longer solid beneath your feet.
    — Ada Calhoun, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2023
  • And it’s also taken the laudable step to offer a generous amount of the in-game currency as recompense.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Zemo was last being carted away to a German prison over a plot to pit the Avengers against each other as recompense for his family who died in Sokovia.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • In recompense, the new series fills out its cast with faces including the actress Mischa Barton.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2019
  • There are laws setting out wages for laborers, and recompense for fires and other damages.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Upon emancipation in 1865, at the end of the civil war, some of the slaves who have been pressed into the Meaher family’s service ask for land in recompense for their bondage.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • The bank is ordered to make about $275 million in recompense to affected mortgage customers.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Then much of this recompense can fairly be viewed as overdue, regardless of how trends may now benefit a new class of rappers.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
  • He’s simply raised questions—why should this slave trade merit recompense and not the Roman campaign to subjugate much of Europe and North Africa?
    — Time, 6 July 2023
  • Yet a stranger had come to my aid unprompted, without judgment or seeking recompense.
    — Jane Bao, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Then, warm weather lovers can likely get recompense by Tuesday.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
  • When the payments stop, insurers must still provide the discounts, but without recompense.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Under the Fast-Track program, however, the farms were taken without any recompense.
    — Craig Richardson, National Review, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The United States used some of the islands as a testing site for nuclear weapons while the country was a territory, and the compact granting free travel is in part recompense for the harm done by those tests.
    — Tess Vrbin, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2021
  • In the real world, the massacre was initially national news, landing on the front page of the Times and prompting promises of recompense by embarrassed white Tulsans.
    — Victor Luckerson, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Without a single nickel of recompense—to them or their descendants.
    — Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 23 June 2022
  • The pandemic portions of the book conjure an adult world of trade-offs and compromise, in which family offers abundant recompense for lacklustre Google search results.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Marvel Studios movies alone have grossed almost $30 billion worldwide, yet the writers and artists behind their stories and characters have mostly seen little in recompense.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023

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