How to Use largesse in a Sentence

largesse

noun
  • He relied on the largesse of friends after he lost his job.
  • And who paid for all this largesse?
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Gimlet’s largesse was worth it.
    — Eric Benson, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Nowhere else in the country offers up the same kind of largesse.
    — Kathleen Hackett, ELLE Decor, 9 July 2015
  • Most of the country doesn’t receive such largesse, of course.
    — Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2017
  • That largesse bankrupted the business.
    — Adam Sachs, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Companies used their newfound largesse to buy back shares of their stock.
    — Christine Romans, CNN, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Brown was asked if medal expectations come with the largesse.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Academics might argue over the wisdom of the state’s largesse.
    — The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Last summer’s largesse was years in the making and had eyes fixed on the future.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But track and field has always come in for more than its fair share of the company’s largesse.
    — oregonlive, 30 Nov. 2021
  • One thing the two-time campaign arm won’t threaten to withhold is his largesse on the trail.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 22 June 2026
  • These are not the people who enjoyed the largesse of the postwar golden age.
    — James Chappel, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Yet this largesse has not changed the economics of the electric car market.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2018
  • Despite the largesse, there are concerns that millions of people will still fall through the cracks.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Last year, the Smiths’ largesse covered the adoption fees for 46 cats and dogs.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2018
  • For adult children on the receiving end of parental largesse, the help can come as a blessing or a curse.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • So scaling up its solar lighting program would require more and more largesse.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2016
  • State and local governments are busy studying where best to dispense the largesse.
    — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Most notably missing is a list of promising high-tech candidates for the pot’s largesse.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Perhaps the good news for investors is that Draghi’s largesse won’t last forever.
    — Simon Ballard, Bloomberg.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Ryan, on his own, has also benefited from the Youngkins’ largesse.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2012
  • The first is that many of these institutions are too rich to deserve endless public largesse.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Hardly any of this largesse was trickling down to the actual soldiers fighting the war, by the way.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Which all too often puts the blame on victims for not graciously accepting the largesse.
    — Jaya Saxena, GQ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • But streaming has changed all that, meaning there’s less largesse in the system flowing to above-the-line talent.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
  • How McConnell doles out that largesse is another part of the puzzle.
    — Michael McAuliff, Kaiser Health News, 30 June 2017
  • Some of that largesse slips out of his wallet to feed hungry players, pretty much the norm for inner-city coaches.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2020
  • Almost every one has attributed its largesse to the tax cut bill, but that's just PR.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • But millions of households won’t have a winning ticket in this tax cut lottery and get little or no largesse at all.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026

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