GRATITUDE in a Sentence

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157 example sentences for GRATITUDE, such as:

1. Her gratitude would weld her to him.
2. Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude.
3. Her eyes were immediately filled with gratitude.
4. His face lit up with a glow of gratitude, though he did not know it.
5. Claim yourself in defiance, in hope, in love, in fury, in gratitude.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRATITUDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gratitude
 n.  state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; thankfulness
Classic Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
1  So sinister was the impression which that face had produced upon me that I found it difficult to feel anything but gratitude for him who had removed its owner from the world.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  With many mumbled blessings and protestations of gratitude the old crone packed it away in her pocket, and shuffled off down the stairs.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
3  Then you will have played your part and earned my gratitude completely.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
4  The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
5  Stephen coloured to find himself with his hat in his hand, in his gratitude for being spoken to, or in the suddenness of it, or both.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
6  What she has done for him demands his constant love and gratitude, not his ill-humour and caprice.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
7  All these little tokens of his gratitude, Mr. Gradgrind very willingly undertook to render.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
8  It is a trifling ransom, Saxon, and thou wilt owe gratitude to the moderation which accepts of it in exchange of your persons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  Cedric, ere they departed, expressed his peculiar gratitude to the Black Champion, and earnestly entreated him to accompany him to Rotherwood.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
10  It concerns me much," he said, "even before I express my full gratitude to my ready friends, to discover, if I may, who have been my unprovoked enemies.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
11  Whereas the men, in gratitude to the woman for the sex experience, let their souls go out to her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  I do not know that her uncle has any claim to her gratitude; his wife certainly had; and it is the warmth of her respect for her aunt's memory which misleads her here.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  Fanny's gratitude, when she heard the plan, was, in fact, much greater than her pleasure.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  Fanny was led off very willingly, though it was impossible for her to feel much gratitude towards her cousin, or distinguish, as he certainly did, between the selfishness of another person and his own.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  She felt that the carriage was for herself, and herself alone: and her uncle's consideration of her, coming immediately after such representations from her aunt, cost her some tears of gratitude when she was alone.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  "Rochester was so willing to receive and looked so grateful for the pastime given him; you have noticed this?" "Grateful! I cannot remember detecting gratitude in his face."
2  His face lit up with a glow of gratitude, though he did not know it.
3  To express their gratitude, patients provided a more-or-less voluntary gratuity.
4  Her gratitude would weld her to him.
5  I wish to foster, not to blight -- to earn gratitude, not to wring tears of blood -- no, nor of brine: my harvest must be in smiles, in endearments, in sweet -- That will do.
6  As a token of our gratitude for all that you have done, we would like you to accept this small gift.
7  Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude.
8  Claim yourself in defiance, in hope, in love, in fury, in gratitude.
9  Her eyes were immediately filled with gratitude.
10  The word "gratitude" did not occur in his words.