How to Use beneficent in a Sentence

beneficent

adjective

• All praise Marc Benioff, the beneficent, the wise, the creator of Salesforce.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 6 June 2017
• His world will have become a more beneficent co-creation.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• What, besides a desire to warm up his image, moved Rumsfeld to tell the story of Gerald Ford’s beneficent 895 days?
  — Evan Thomas, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• Bible study probably is the most beneficent for Reggie.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
• There was a question about it every now and again, but Frank will be remembered as a beneficent champion of his native state, one who worked hard for the greater good.
  — oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2022
• In the past three years, as some three hundred thousand refugees, many from Syria and Afghanistan, have sought asylum, there has been a growing sense that the country can no longer afford to be beneficent.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
• The last light disappearing, night and stars emerging, a beneficent moon rising.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Like the beneficent Maleficent, Cruella is just swell-a.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 27 May 2021
• The idea of a powerful, beneficent state able to provide for everyone’s needs is compelling and can find fertile soil anywhere.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• Today’s Tiny Tims can’t rely on beneficent poltergeists to scare plutocrats straight.
  — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
• Insisting, as Dreher does, that the West is their beneficent father and mother is bizarre, if not downright insulting.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
• In other words, suggesting that Trump was beneficent was a distraction, at best.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2017
• Moral perversion exists side by side in Shakespeare’s tragedy with beneficent strength.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Many see Sheikh Amoudi less as a beneficent local son than a Saudi privateer.
  — Danny Hakim and Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
• Ohio 'not beneficent toward black people' Lynchings took many forms.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• The president clearly thinks his trade outburst will have the same beneficent effect on U.S. trading partners.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2018
• The government has flailed in its response to the pandemic, and Big Tech has presented itself as a beneficent friend, willing to lend a competent hand.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 12 June 2020
• But for, say, two young black men trying to jump a car that won’t start—no doubt frustrated and late for work—the arrival of a police officer is the arrival of a government agent who may be in a beneficent mood or a vengeful one.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 21 Mar. 2017
• More tantalizing is a pie-in-the-sky idea: whether a beneficent billionaire, like Michael R. Bloomberg, could buy the company and either try to transform it or shut it down — a sort of philanthropic euthanasia in the name of gun control.
  — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• Under these terms, any tech company can start to seem like a welcoming partner, if not a beneficent institution.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2021
• Under the beneficent interrogation of host Alex Trebek, nervous middle schoolers point to obscure corners of the globe, as their even more nervous parents watch.
  — Jeffrey Marlow, WIRED, 28 May 2013
• To avoid scrutiny and having the face the court of public opinion, many organizations and institutions took pre-emptive measures that on the surface seemed beneficent.
  — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• The result is a book in which religion and motherhood, both of which Sade mocked and detested, are praised, and where nature, which Sade viewed as an amoral force that served to explain and justify his characters’ evil, is presented as beneficent.
  — Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2020
• The impulse that rejects the very notion of IQ differences between races will thrive despite any beneficent intentions founded on belief in such differences.
  — John McWhorter, National Review, 5 July 2017
• Conservatives might attribute the growth in the one percent’s share to the beneficent incentives of low income-tax rates: Wealthy Americans responded to tax cuts by producing more, and thus increased their pre-tax income.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
• Sometimes seemingly beneficent otherworldly beings take a cruel turn that seems all the harsher because the switch is unfathomable, almost out of nowhere.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2017
• This inevitably results in conflict with his cohorts, who don’t appreciate such beneficent actions as Wolf gently coaxing a frightened kitty down from a tree.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2022
• Many modern immunotherapy drugs, for instance, work best in the presence of beneficent microbes—as do some older chemotherapies.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2020
• Having beneficent Jupiter and elusive Neptune as your co-ruling planets hints at your innate angelic, but spacey qualities.
  — Ashley Otero, Teen Vogue, 20 Aug. 2018
• The rest of the supporting cast is fine, especially Howard Witt as Charley, Willy's gruff, argumentative and ultimately beneficent next-door neighbor.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024