Sentence Examples

1. He had long black hair that did nothing to compliment his narrow face, but his wide green eyes and full lips made up for the bad styling choice.
2. One, with a fan and some bits of paper, performed the graceful trick of the butterflies and the flowers another traced in the air, with the odorous smoke of his pipe, a series of blue words, which composed a compliment to the audience while a third juggled with some lighted candles, which he extinguished successively as they passed his lips, and relit again without interrupting for an instant his juggling.
3. Arthur would often pat him on the back and compliment him in passing, and there were times he felt sure the king wanted to say more, maybe something personal about just them, but then Arthur always froze up and fell silent.
4. He concluded a somewhat droll speech with a compliment upon what he was pleased to term the tact of Dupin, and made him a direct, and certainly a liberal proposition, the precise nature of which I do not feel myself at liberty to disclose, but which has no bearing upon the proper subject of my narrative.
5. Her eyes darkened, her lips parting slightly, and he knew how gratifying she found the compliment.
6. She sent an appraising look at him from beneath lowered lids, feigning modesty at the compliment.
7. She gave him a delightful smile for his compliment, but it was soon replaced by a serious expression.
8. The compliment my friend rebutted as best he could, but the proposition he accepted at once, although its advantages were altogether provisional.
9. Despite all the flattery he had received over the years, he did not know how to respond to such a profound compliment.
10. My compliment made them turn away, cheeks flushing a bit.