How To Use Extenuate In A Sentence
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To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine - when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house - Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, and a shower of manna falls for lips that earthly nutriment is to pass no more.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Black folks galore, I am sure, were ordering Bombay Sapphires, straight up, lemon twist—dry, veerrry dry, without receiving an extenuated lesson on the authenticity of a martini.
A Kettle of Vultures
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Her hair, streaked with gray, was always pulled back in bun, a style that only extenuated the bags and bruises that clung to her eyes.
Can I Take My Gun Up To Heaven?
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The circumstances extenuate the crime
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The man you term your deliverer, I have seen; it appears, upon the whole, that he has acted from coercion, and that what share of guilt may attach to him, has been much extenuated by your deliverance. —
Magdalen; or, the Penitent of Godstow
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A doctrinal synthesis may be a negative guide, eliminating erroneous interpretation, but only in a very extenuated sense would it be a positive aid to interpretation.
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He was unable to say anything that might have extenuated his behaviour.
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I would not "set down aught in malice," I would rather "extenuate," yet am I bound in truth to say that
Autobiography of a female slave,
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Nothing can extenuate his crime.
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In the mean time, provision was made of many Flambeaux and Torches, not only for the Service of their Light, but to help extenuate those poysonous Particles there gather'd by means of the want of Air.
The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
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This I neither "extenuate" nor "set down in malice," but merely record the fact.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
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And shall only take notice of such whose experimental and judicious knowledge shall be employed, not to traduce or extenuate, but to explain and dilucidate, to add and ampliate, according to the laudable custom of the ancients in their sober promotions of learning.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation
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The false prophets are those who do not present the word of God in its purity, but they dilute and extenuate it with a thousand human words that come from out of their heart.
Archive 2008-03-01
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There was nothing she would not have done to extenuate her error, and to obviate its ill effect upon
Camilla
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Within months came the 'excuse' of nine-eleven which has been the single means to 'justify' such extenuated ends that must surely be the wetdreams of any Texas oilman since 1950.
Straight from the top (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Nor is he the victim of injustice or ingratitude that might extenuate, though not excuse, his later crimes.
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The ash extenuates its smoky flavours but the celeriac is the mere supporting cast for our star, the wildly irresistible boar.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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On one wall, there is a gallery of grave, extenuated figures that recall El Greco.
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I can explain (not extenuate) my mistake only by a misprint in Al – Siyúti (p. 554).
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He contended that, in the first assault Mr. Desailly was the aggressor, having exhibited an unpardonable degree of negligence and carelessness, which not only extenuated the conduct of the defendant, but amounted to a positive excuse and justification.
Archive 2009-05-01
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The burden of proof is overwhelmingly on the cancer-cluster-claimers, and oil companies customarily wear out plaintiffs 'attorneys' funds in extenuated litigation.
Sheila Weller: Beverly High, Oil Wells, Power Plants, Cancer: Disproven? Not So Fast
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It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.
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Then he drew a second pear, exactly like the former, except that one or two lines were scrawled in the midst of it, which bore somehow a ludicrous resemblance to the eyes, nose, and mouth of a celebrated personage; and, lastly, he drew the exact portrait of Louis Philippe; the well-known toupet, the ample whiskers and jowl were there, neither extenuated nor set down in malice.
The Paris Sketch Book
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Both outfits extenuated the tans and muscles that had grown over the summer.
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Mr. Archer, whose criticism of this play is extraordinarily brilliant, does his best to extenuate the stiffness of it.
Henrik Ibsen
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It's just extenuated the rules being abrogated by colleges and … these kids are worth $30-$40-$50 million while still 18 years of age.
Non-college players dominate NBA Finals rosters
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Its rather angular and extenuated figures are reminiscent of those of a pyxis in Berkeley which has already been discussed in its relation to our painter.
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This outrage committed on “the most holy sacrament of the altar,” though but temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to them that it could only be extenuated by a
Les Miserables
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Within months came the 'excuse' of nine-eleven which has been the single means to 'justify' such extenuated ends that must surely be the wetdreams of any Texas oilman since 1950.
Straight from the top (Jack Bog's Blog)
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It is true the people at the Cascades had suffered much, and that their wives and children had been murdered before their eyes, but to wreak vengeance on Spencer's unoffending family, who had walked into their settlement under the protection of a friendly alliance, was an unparalleled outrage which nothing can justify or extenuate.
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