Sentences with compensate
com·pen·sate
C c - The official promise to compensate people for the price rise clearly hadn't been worked out properly. [VERB noun for noun]
- The company agreed to keep up high levels of output in order to compensate for supplies lost. [VERB + for]
- Building products company James Hardie Industries NV today signalled it was willing to contribute more funds to compensate asbestos victims.
- Albeit with a generosity that helps compensate for the general feeling of conservatism.
- MPs say it is crucial that a system is found to compensate for inflation. [VERB + for]
- People who sense that they are inferior have to compensate, and often over-compensate by way of outward achievement. [VERB]
- It is situations such as these that have prompted Kidney Health Australia to call on the Federal Government to compensate live kidney donors.
- An Australian-owned gold mining operation in Laos has agreed to compensate villagers for contaminated the Bo River.
- To compensate an owner for land taken by a city
- They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- True fairness might mean using auction revenues also to compensate low-income consumers for higher energy bills.
- He compensated his homely appearance with great personal charm.
- His occasional courtesies did not compensate for his general rudeness.
- It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
- His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality. To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.
- I don't like driving that old car because it always steers a little to the left so I'm forever compensating for that when I drive it. Trust me, it gets annoying real fast. To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.