Sentence examples for compensated for something from inspiring English sources

Writing in Wisden, John Woodcock noted: "As in England, earlier in 1988, Ambrose's bowling was a telling factor ... [His] advance compensated for something of a decline in [Malcolm ] Marshalls effectiveness".

An ISA spokesman said: "The company cannot compensate for something that it has not caused".

"Do you think maybe he's compensating for something?" the donkey asks.

You don't want to spend your first months trying to compensate for something you regret doing or saying – or not doing or saying, for that matter.

In today's culture of childhood-wound-licking, her upbeat tone is so striking you have to wonder if she's compensating for something.

This only works because Bach doesn't tend to end parts early and have rests at the end, but it wouldn't be too hard to compensate for something like that – see the docs for measure method on Score objects.

Clever people are usually compensating for something, even if the wound that makes them draw the bow of art is no worse than an overlarge schnozz and sticking-out ears.

Yet the bow tie comes to seem a little sad, a little silly; Woodcock's effort to dress himself so sharply begin to resemble the efforts of an insecure man desperate to compensate for something.

Kassell maintained a focussed expression while he played that failed to mask that he'd clearly disliked the keyboardist since day one, just because the keyboardist had shot down all of Kassell's objectively terrible suggestions at their first band practice and then made a very hilarious comment about how drummers are compensating for something with those drumsticks.

Was the company trying to compensate for something?

In fact, it can actually make you seem insecure — as if you need that fresh off the runway outfit to compensate for something.