gratuityin a sentence
- She travels with a universal plug adapter and an international tip and gratuity guide.
- By means of a small gratuity to the girl in the coatroom, she ensured that she would arrive two minutes after her guest.† (source)
- "Yes," Bacchus said, "although with demigod parties of five or more the gratuity is included, so that wasn't necessary."† (source)
- They also provided me with what she called "a gratuity": $28.† (source)
- We are not permitted to accept gratuities.† (source)
- She appreciated my generosity, no doubt, and saw clear to the idea that she might expand on that gratuity by increasing the canvas, if I may adopt an art analogy.† (source)
- That's your gratuity," he sulked before suddenly perking up.† (source)
- I believed that love is a gratuity, not a reward to be earnedjust as they believe it is their right to demand an unearned wealth.† (source)
- He remembered the evenings he had come to this house, a bottle beside him on the seat, and they had gone tooting off together; and the evenings he had brought bottles in gift packages, discreet gratuities for her brother; and the nights in the apartment, sharing a decanter drink for drink because she loved her liquor.† (source)
- Although gratuities in the South—at least up until that time—had been in general eschewed or never taken seriously, he should have known better than to tip Thomas McGuire a nickel—wiser to give no tip at all.† (source)
- Capable of gratuity!† (source)
show 16 more with this conextual meaning
- With fifteen thousand pounds, a gratuity and a pension from the Circus, a man—as Control would say—can afford to come in from the cold.† (source)
- The restaurant includes a 15% gratuity for parties of five or more.
- So we slide from bribe to gratuity.† (source)
- I haven't had time to leave gratuities.† (source)
- They're not struggle for survival, not a pain in the neck that would make me vulnerable to, say, some gratuity from you.† (source)
- Every stranger is a potential excuse-maker or gratuity artist, if not an outright enemy, and every friend is a potential favor-seeker.† (source)
- A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of imagination.† (source)
- That gratuity which I receive at Christmas, ma'am: I never touch it.† (source)
- He appeared a comfortable owner of something, a man from whom the common run of mortals could well expect gratuities.† (source)
- She heard Jonathan Kail's heavy footsteps up and down the stairs till he had done placing the luggage, and heard him express his thanks for the ale her husband took out to him, and for the gratuity he received.† (source)
- He may ENJOY this finer tribute—that is another affair, but on condition only of taking it as a gratuity "thrown in," a mere miraculous windfall, the fruit of a tree he may not pretend to have shaken.† (source)
- Having seen Jacopo fairly out of the harbor, Dantes proceeded to make his final adieus on board The Young Amelia, distributing so liberal a gratuity among her crew as to secure for him the good wishes of all, and expressions of cordial interest in all that concerned him.† (source)
- But the new family did not make its appearance; it was only through Raggles that she heard of their movements—how Miss Crawley's domestics had been dismissed with decent gratuities, and how Mr. Pitt had only once made his appearance in London, when he stopped for a few days at the house, did business with his lawyers there, and sold off all Miss Crawley's French novels to a bookseller out of Bond Street.† (source)
- A third, in the absence of opponents, between two councils would simply solicit a special gratuity for his faithful services, well knowing that at that moment people would be too busy to refuse him.† (source)
- Water, rest, shelter, and protection were all he looked for from the proprietor, and they were gratuities.† (source)
- "Lookee, friend," cries Jones, "the right owner shall certainly have again all that she lost; and as for any farther gratuity, I really cannot give it you at present; but let me know your name, and where you live, and it is more than possible you may hereafter have further reason to rejoice at this morning's adventure."† (source)
▲ show less (of above)