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How to use the word compensate in a Sentence?

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Our staff explained that if any mishap happens or any accident takes place, our company will compensate medical bills. But the client can’t demand for compensation on other kind of expenses.

Nithit Intim

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Petito family lost their daughter, and they were also denied the opportunity to confront her killer, no amount of money is sufficient to compensate the Petito family for the loss of their daughter, Gabby, at the hands of Brain Laundrie.

Patrick Reilly

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People still do want to travel and do travel, but they’re still trying to compensate for the increase in prices.

Axel Hefer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In northwest Syria, we are already suffering from a shortage of supplies, and we are now using the regular inventories in our warehouses, so we are in urgent need of additional support to compensate these supplies for regular operations — and also to be ready for aftershocks and more casualties who may come to our hospitals.

Abdurrahman Alomar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To compensate for their failures, USSS executive leadership provided Congressional oversight entities USSS employee’s personal cell phone numbers from employee personnel records. These personal records were released without the employee’s consent.

Larry Cosme

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

With tips staying the same and gas prices going up, often times I lose money when delivering to a house because the tip does not compensate the gas I used, sad times.

Chris Rivelli

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If Ukrainian fields lie fallow this year, aid agencies such as ours will be forced to source new markets to compensate for the loss of some of the world's best wheat, doing so will come at a vastly inflated cost.

David Beasley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Repsol oil spill in Ventanilla is the worst ecological disaster that has occurred in Lima in recent times and has caused serious damage to hundreds of fishermen's families. Repsol must compensate for this damage immediately.

Oscar Maurtua

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This idea that Alex Murdaugh has never attempted to flee – that's a skewed view of reality here. Suicide is the ultimate attempt to flee, the money that was misappropriated and stolen from them wasn't just fun money, it wasn't just 'I'm going to go to Las Vegas and gamble' money. This was money that was supposed to be used to compensate them for injuries, so that they could afford medical care.

Justin Bramberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

National liberals are ramping up their investments in secretary of state races because they see control of these offices as a way to change the rules to compensate for their inability to win elections with their failed socialist agenda, the RSLC is focused on continuing to accelerate our fundraising efforts so we can stop them.

Andrew Romeo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a period of time when patients often get really restless. It's horrible to see, the body knows something is very wrong. It's trying to compensate, but it just can't.

Audrey Wendt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ideally, everyone should sleep eight hours a night, but if we can't, then we should compensate as much and as regularly as possible.

Hermano Krebs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are deeply concerned about the safety of our staff, medical staff, and incarcerated people in our facilities and are working hard to improve conditions, we have been taking extensive measures to encourage staff to return to work, to relieve those who have been heroically working extra shifts to compensate, and to make this an environment whereany parent would feel like their own son or daughter was safe working or living here.

Vincent Schiraldi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Chinese permanent magnet producers get raw materials at 25% below the price I can get them, to reach a level playing field either the EU should compensate for this gap, or should consider penalties on the import of magnets. I personally would prefer the first option.

Bernd Schleede

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We're in a bit of a transitional period where the contracts that were struck did not anticipate this type of change in strategy, i would think going forward from this point on every new contract will have to include language that figures out a way to compensate the talent for the potential of a direct-to-video, a direct-to-streaming watch.

Michael Nathanson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These victims who have lost their homes, their personal belongings, and in many cases their lives are not going to be sacrificing the value of their real estate for the public good, this court's task and Judge Michael Hanzman task is to compensate the victims of this tragedy, period.

Judge Michael Hanzman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you're a parent, you try to compensate with so much love and you're almost afraid to get into the argument, so you let things slide and then you're like, 'Oh, there should've been a boundary in that place probably a while ago,'but I guess I'm only realizing that now.

Drew Barrymore

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I mean, it's not going to increase the number in that age group to compensate, but it may be that you see an increased proportion. i might be pessimistic, but I think there are always going to be little pockets, places where it can spread quickly and it's difficult to see how we can overcome that, other than taking children out of schools, which I don't think we really want to do.

Jason Oke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You may see a skew in the age distribution of cases ; as you get higher levels of vaccination in the elderly, you're more likely to see younger people getting infected, i mean, it's not going to increase the number in that age group to compensate, but it may be that you see an increased proportion.

Mike Tildesley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

After 10 years of waiting and fierce combat, the German certifier will have to fully compensate the victims.

Olivier Aumaitre

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We want to take a communal approach to compensate us for the data that we are creating and the work that we are doing for these companies and then put that compensation towards greater use for all of us in the form of workforce development, digital literacy, education, etc..

Andrew Gounardes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're nottrying to destroy the industry. All we're saying is you have a responsibility to properly compensate us for the use of the data that we are giving you, that you're mining off of us, that we have seen no return on, in some ways the ketchup is out of the bottle, and we’re not trying to put it all back yet, but we do think there should be fair, appropriate and equitable way to manage this data, use this data and compensate us for it fairly and properly.

Andrew Gounardes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it's pretty universal in terms of the nanny discussion, that if you're still getting paid, that you compensate them.

Roger Ma

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

All competitions heading into the Olympics are like a chain, every competition builds up to it, and it's impossible to compensate for that in Russia.

Maria Lasitskene

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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