(n.) An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend.
(v. t.) To praise, flatter, or gratify, by expressions of approbation, respect, or congratulation; to make or pay a compliment to.
(v. i.) To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(2) He shrugs in bemusement at what is, to him, a meaningless compliment.
(3) The person giving the official Coalition briefing described the discussion between current and former leaders as an “almost nauseating exchange of compliments”.
(4) Methods that compliment, reflect, and are consistent with developmental needs of the young teen provide cogent approaches to teen pregnancy prevention.
(5) When, exactly, did the work "dark" become a reverential compliment, as opposed to merely a neutral description?
(6) It always surprises me that this movie came out as recently as 1992 because this film has the definite feel of the late 80s to me, something from the same era as, say, Weekend at Bernie's and other such classics (as regular readers will know by now, there are no higher compliments from me).
(7) At 52, Stewart has the bouncy energy of a man half his age and, unlike most in the public eye, has an aversion to compliments.
(8) In a perverse way, it’s a backhanded compliment to what is after all a young coach (he’ll turn 41 at the end of the month) that Kreis, at RSL, gets treated as part of the MLS furniture.
(9) She has won compliments for her elegant clothing and her interactions with ordinary people in a country where it is rare to see leaders' spouses or children in public.
(10) Those are words you wouldn’t use again.” ‘I know I’m stronger than most people I know.’ She adds that the word “cockroach” was actually intended as a kind of compliment: “The picture in my mind was these resilient creatures.
(11) When my wife said she was the Shaq to my Kobe, what she really meant to say is that she compliments me and makes me whole, hopefully without the animosity.
(12) In type III allergy, compliment activation plays an important role.
(13) When I got upset about this I was told I should take it as a compliment.
(14) However, further studies must be carried out to verify this finding before using the information to compliment other prognostic variables, such as age of patient, previous therapy, cytokinetics, etc.
(15) There was no intention to exploit anyone or indeed supply cheap labour; our time in training and people investment shone through on the day with compliments from officials at how well turned out and efficient our team was.
(16) I think we showed belief on the pitch and obviously Leicester, compliments to them, but we have to try to chase them.
(17) Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) can be subdivided into three epochs: 1. from its inception by Dotter and Judkins up to the first coronary artery stenosis dilatation with the Grüntzig balloon catheter system; 2. from the introduction of coronary stenosis dilatation by Grüntzig up to its unequivocal acceptance; 3. the period of influence of low-risk coronary dilatation on peripheral angioplasty and the search for techniques to compliment or obviate the need for balloon dilatation.
(18) The program targeted both nonverbal responses related to the actual execution of the ball game as well as verbal responses for play initiation and providing compliments for the confederate's behavior.
(19) In one sense, Jenkins won outright - over and again, critics have complimented the film for presenting a version of Wuornos that is "not sympathetic".
(20) For the first time, foreigners didn't ask awkward questions about the war, but complimented us on our hospitality and the beauty of our cities.
Lull
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet.
(v. i.) To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls.
(n.) The power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby.
(n.) A temporary cessation of storm or confusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(2) Spurs were almost sleepwalking to a comfortable win, with even the crowd lulled into the inevitability of it all, when sloppiness flared.
(3) The reason for this odd period of apparent inactivity is not just the lull caused by the summer break or even the shock of the British vote to leave the EU.
(4) A definite increase was noticed in the number of cases per block following lull years in 1984 and 1987.
(5) There was anecdotal evidence to suggest revenge pornography images were being circulated among teenagers in schools and applications such as Snapchat (where photos disappear after a few seconds) were lulling young people into a false sense of security.
(6) There's a brief lull as Seattle try to just get their collective foot on the ball and try to maybe calm what's still a fantastically raucous crowd.
(7) Let us not forget that returning veterans of the "war to end all wars were promised a "land fit for heroes", yet what they got post-1918 was poverty, squalor, unemployment and, after a short lull, more war.
(8) So, something of a summer lull, but we'll do our best.
(9) There's a lull while Mark Hudson gets treatment for cramp.
(10) Word of their last-minute intervention to delay the sanctions never filtered down to working-level officials at the State Department during the holiday lull.
(11) 6.15am After an hour and a half of furious exchanges, there was a lull in the fighting.
(12) Animals that were subjected to sham surgery or anesthesia alone showed a delay of 4.4 h in the reappearance of LH secretion, similar to the lull in LH pulsations normally observed at the time of day.
(13) First comes a feeling of euphoria: then the diver gets overconfident, lulled into a false sense of security, and dangerously overestimates how long they have left.
(14) Shortly after 4pm there was a brief lull when Father Hugh Mullan, a 40-year-old priest who lived in Springfield Park, remonstrated with the crowds.
(15) After a deliberately hazy and meandering first half – one that lulls both reader and characters into a false sense of security – the second part of the novel barely breathes.
(16) The poem is structured like a lament, the soldiers' epitaphs interspersed with direct translations of Homer's extended similes, each of which is transcribed, lullingly, twice over.
(17) The next time you hear mollifying words from Rudd that our rising debt levels are at reasonable levels compared to other countries, think about how Britons were lulled into the financial danger zone and ask yourself: are we on the same trajectory?
(18) At the moment, there's a bit of a lull and it's very quiet.
(19) Midnight in Paris , his biggest box-office earner to date , might have lulled you into assuming late-stage Allen was pipe-and-slippers stuff.
(20) Barcelona did succeed in lulling United into a false sense of security, however, for when they put together their first meaningful attack after 10 minutes the defensive line in front of Van der Sar crumbled alarmingly to allow the goalkeeper to be beaten at his near post.