Sentence examples for generous parents from inspiring English sources

For young pelicans, some early experience in diving for fish comes during their time in the nest, when they graduate from feeding on half-digested fish bits regurgitated by their generous parents to retrieving fish from the famously capacious pouched parental bills and even their gullets.

Children with generous parents strutted around in new clothes: suits for the boys, white dresses for the girls.

Low pay has helped: a local reporter might start on £13,000, which is easier for those with generous parents and no debt.

We will miss your hardy laughter; watching you swing gracefully from the trapeze; dancing with you; your creativity and your wise, wry, generous parents.

He has had considerable luck in his life: his generous parents, his improbable admission to the Charleville school, his landing in Greenwich Village, in the bar culture.

For our birthdays, my very generous parents surprised my three sisters and me with a "bonding" vacation and carte blanche to travel anywhere to do so.

Even a straightforward advance from a generous parent can arouse a surprising array of emotions.

— The toys in the backyard suggest generous parenting: a swing set, its green paint shiny and new; a red tetherball covered in cherry-red glitter; even a trampoline.

three jobs, £1,000 off fees for progressing straight from undergrad to postgrad, generous parent In my experience there are two types of master's students: the poor and passionate, and the delaying-entering-the-real-world-and-rich-enough.

I guess he thought that he was underpaid as an MP, that generous allowances were an unofficial way of topping up his salary and that, if he chose to hire his son instead of an industrious researcher who would have been more use to him, then that was the sacrifice of a generous parent.

Helio recently cut 100 jobs while its less financially generous parent, Earthlink, cut back its own staff to the tune of a whopping 900 positions.