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Examples of Good Samaritan in a Sentence
We had a flat tire on the highway but fortunately a Good Samaritan stopped to help us change it.
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One person is dead, and another injured after being rescued by a nearby Good Samaritan during a drowning incident on Sunday in California.
Fresno County Sherriff’s Office deputies and EMS personnel were dispatched to the Skaggs Bridge Park near Kerman, California around 4 p.m. on Sunday.
—Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
The five-years-young Chihuahua mix was brought to the Arizona Humane Society as an injured stray in early June after a Good Samaritan took her to a local emergency vet.
—The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2024
Listen to this article A BMW driver has been charged with manslaughter for a 2019 that killed a young correction officer and a Good Samaritan helping a woman involved in a fender-bender, police said Wednesday.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2024
This development is near but different from a separate project site to the east where a healthcare titan aims to replace the huge but aging Good Samaritan Hospital with a modern medical center.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1843, in the meaning defined above
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“Good Samaritan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Good%20Samaritan. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
Legal Definition
good samaritan
noun
good sa·mar·i·tan
-sə-ˈmar-ə-tən
: one who voluntarily renders aid to another in distress although under no duty to do so
Etymology
from the good Samaritan in the New Testament parable (Luke 10:30–37)
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