Sentence examples for forgive from inspiring English sources

"forgive" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use the word "forgive" when you are asking someone to forgive you for something you have done wrong or when you are forgiving someone for something they have done wrong. Example: "Please forgive me for my mistake."

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forgive

verb

To pardon, to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment.

  • Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave

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"Please forgive me".

There are people in the Midlands who could never forgive him for the way United snatched the great Duncan Edwards from Wolves.

The lawyers will forgive Gove for not being one of them if he approaches his new role with a measure of humility and sensitivity.

He told BBC1's Breakfast: "We haven't made any proposals whatsoever about changing nurses' terms and conditions... Eight days into a new government, I hope you'll forgive me if I don't negotiate on air about every single aspect of doctors' and nurses' conditions.

The Championship is competitive and compelling but you can forgive its managers for sometimes pining for a quieter life at this time of year.

I think people can forgive darkness if they know the characters are groping for the light switch, so I don't regret bringing them to life.

"He toasted us and he simply said, 'May God forgive you,' which brought the house down.

"But that does not mean the intelligence community will ever forgive him for having exposed what they were doing.

But they forgive these smaller issues for the bigger picture; as I greet them they are thumbing through the Wetherspoon magazine, admiring the opulence of Harrogate Wetherspoon, the Winter Gardens, housed in a former Royal Bath building.

In communities like mine in Birmingham, now hit with the highest youth unemployment in the country, local residents who once voted Lib Dem will never ever forgive or forget the betrayal of our young people.

They are computer nerds …" Arlidge was inclined to forgive Lewis for being one-sided: he "thinks flash trading is the next big crisis waiting to happen and must be eradicated".

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