Sentence examples for could be generous from inspiring English sources

Phillips could be generous with praise for a fellow coach.

There could be generous compensation for lost property.

He could be generous when it served him.

"I could be generous and say it's 20 to 1, but it's more like 40 to 1.

In interviews after the fire, some of Almena's tenants and friends said that he could be generous.

A child of the lower middle class, Judge Sotomayor could be generous to the point of near profligacy.

Pop was the one who showed me how effective it can be to say grindingly little at the very moments when you ought to say a lot, when you could easily be generous with praise or forgiveness, when you could tender all you had and no one would ask for anything extra in return.

I chose to be good-natured, to spare what I could, to be generous.

After receiving a $5 million signing bonus on a five-year contract that could earn him $10.9 million, Taylor could afford to be generous.

"You want to be able to keep fund-raising and give because it is important in terms of needy causes, but in financial down times, people may not feel as generous or could be as generous as they would like to be," Ms. DeMolfetto said.

Rosecrans could afford to be generous.