Sentence examples for pay a compliment from inspiring English sources

"But she hated to pay a compliment.

Offer to help, give away your change, pay a compliment, or make someone smile.

But I'd like to pay a compliment to Pep Guardiola and to José Mourinho," Villas Boas said.

Observers, intending to pay a compliment, have often said of President Reagan that he is"at ease with himself"or"comfortable with himself".

To pay a compliment whose decorative phrases, and appeals to vanity or family pride, were fixed and of ancient and approved form.

In the theater's balcony their characters are watching the "Deep Throat" screening in semi-seclusion, and Hugh Hefner takes the opportunity both to pay a compliment to Lovelace and take advantage of her.

And he paid a compliment to the Trump administration.

Irony is a stance of distance that pays a compliment to both its producer and consumer.

When the partner was paid a compliment like "spendabler spieler!" — generous player!

A surprising thing happened last week: David Cameron paid a compliment to Ed Miliband.

Today's oppositionists are bloggers, not poets, but an autocrat of the Internet age still paid a compliment to the old-fashioned written word.