How to Use redeeming in a Sentence

redeeming

adjective
  • In the end of Close Your Eyes, there is a redeeming gaze.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2024-08-23
  • What are still my redeeming qualities throughout all of this?
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 2024-11-22
  • Isn’t the one redeeming factor of the Tudor era that men didn’t use the word toxic?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 2024-07-02
  • Both films grind away for almost two and a half hours, stripped of the pop and the rush that are, or ought to be, the redeeming virtue of the genre.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2021-12-23
  • These giants eat mostly other snakes, which is a redeeming feature for humans.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2022-05-19
  • That has a certain redeeming quality, thinking, ‘This is hard, and these are the risks.
    — Washington Post, 2022-02-16
  • Debates were, in my opinion, charades, cheap shows and without much redeeming substance.
    — Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 2024-07-13
  • The battery on the phone, thankfully, is a redeeming quality.
    — Christian De Looper, BGR, 2021-07-28
  • None of her victims has a redeeming quality or generates empathy for their demise.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 2022-04-11
  • White characters are mostly buffoons with no redeeming value.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 2023-06-13
  • The redeeming feature of Donald Trump was his bottomless cynicism about all this.
    — WSJ, 2020-12-18
  • The Elite has always been a rather strange-looking creation, although its occasional seating for four is something of a redeeming virtue.
    — Mike Knepper, Car and Driver, 2023-03-31
  • But even as the flow of the movie approaches incoherence, then rushes headlong past it, a redeeming strain of brotherly camaraderie takes root, even amid constant sniping and bitching.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 2022-11-04
  • In the most redeeming moment of the night, and possibly the franchise’s recent history, we are treated to a scene of Jasmine and Alexis hanging out playfully in the hot tub.
    — Katy Primosch, baltimoresun.com, 2017-08-22
  • Considering the messages shared are rooted in biblical principles of love, forgiveness and empathy, where else will such redeeming traits of living and belonging be instilled?
    — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 2021-04-04
  • Twitter’s most redeeming qualities are its democratic possibilities.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 2018-02-07
  • To call politics war cheapens the sacrifices made by actual soldiers and turns our political opponents from good people (who have good reasons for wanting different policies) to enemies (who have no redeeming qualities and must be destroyed).
    — Jennifer Mercieca, TIME, 2024-07-15

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