PARDON in a Sentence

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For PARDON, below is one of 174 sentences:
I beg your pardon, it is the literal truth: he asked me more than once, and was as stiff about urging his point as ever you could be.

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 Meanings and Examples of PARDON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pardon
 v.  accept an excuse for
 v.  grant a pardon to
Classic Sentence: (166 in 12 pages)
1  I beg your pardon for being so rude, but sometimes you forget to put down the curtain at the window where the flowers are.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
2  Mrs. March looked grave and grieved, and Amy felt that no one would love her till she had asked pardon for the act which she now regretted more than any of them.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
3  My lords and ladies, pardon the ruse by which.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
4  this fine paper I hope you will pardon his badness and.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
5  I was right, but didn't speak as I ought, and he marched home, saying he wouldn't come again till I begged pardon.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
6  Laurie and I are both so proud, it's hard to beg pardon.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
7  We both laughed, begged each other's pardon, and felt all good and comfortable again.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
8  I'll give him a hearty scolding and bring him over to beg pardon, cried Jo, burning to execute immediate justice.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
9  If he's done anything amiss, he shall confess, beg pardon, and be punished.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
10  Laurie has confessed, asked pardon, and been punished quite enough.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
11  She had a feeling that Father and Mother would not approve, and preferred to have her own way first, and beg pardon afterward.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
12  But, dear heart, we all have our little weaknesses, and find it easy to pardon such in the young, who satisfy our eyes with their comeliness, and keep our hearts merry with their artless vanities.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
13  I beg your pardon, it was so small, I naturally mistook it for one of the flyaway things you sometimes wear.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
14  Go, dear, I forgot that you have any home but this, and Mrs. March pressed the white hand that wore the wedding ring, as if asking pardon for her maternal covetousness.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
15  He begged pardon for having displeased her.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence:
1  He went there to ask her pardon, but the words stuck in his throat.
2  God will pardon me, it is his trade.
3  He was granted a pardon after new evidence had proved his innocence.
4  The president used his executive discretion to pardon the two men.
5  I beg your pardon, it is the literal truth: he asked me more than once, and was as stiff about urging his point as ever you could be.
6  "I beg your pardon," said Alice very humbly: "you had got to the fifth bend, I think?"
7  This funeral stopped the further growth of one thing -- the petition to the governor for Injun Joe's pardon.
8  The two spies were pardoned yesterday by the President.