appreciate

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I would appreciate it if you would let me finish the story without interruption.

Sometimes you don't appreciate what you have because you're too focused on what you want.

I don't really appreciate expensive wine. It is wasted on me.

I try to appreciate the good people and things that are in my life.

He was not well-educated or political, but if nothing else, he was a man who appreciated fairness.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

I think his shortcoming increased his appreciation; he loved it all indiscriminately—Beethoven, the latest love ditty, jazz, a hymn—it was all profoundly musical to Phineas.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

I looked at Valerie in awe, appreciating for the first time her perpetual marble calm.†  (source) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1971

Then came the society of the duchesses; all were pale; all got up at four o'clock; the women, poor angels, wore English point on their petticoats; and the men, unappreciated geniuses under a frivolous outward seeming, rode horses to death at pleasure parties, spent the summer season at Baden, and towards the forties married heiresses.†  (source) Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1856

Then, perhaps sensing its efforts were underappreciated, the dog stopped bringing gifts, but by then Claude had begun his campaign.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

'Comrades,' he said, 'I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labor upon himself.'  (source) George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945

"No," I said, "but I really appreciate your refusal to give in to breakfasty social conventions."  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

In my lonesome hours nothing would be more appreciated than to look at pictures of the family.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

George said wonderingly, "S'pose they was a carnival or a circus come to town, or a ball game, or any damn thing." Old Candy nodded in appreciation of the idea.  (source) John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937

She doesn't fully appreciate our difficulties.

She has no appreciation of the delicacy of the negotiations.

I appreciate your concerns about my proposal.

Scientists did not initially appreciate the complexity of genetic expression.

Before I dazzle you with the symphonic sound of this unit, let me point out some of its less-appreciated features.  (source) Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, 1995

Abnegation sees art as impractical, and its appreciation as time that could be spent serving others, so though I have seen works of art in textbooks, I have never been in a decorated room before.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

I was too worried and scared to appreciate the fact that he was trying to be funny.  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

It looked so easy, but the moment Kit took the wool cards into her hands she appreciated Mercy's skill.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

"With each passing minute, I'm developing a deeper appreciation of the word mortified," he said finally.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

But after so long alone, I think we had both come to appreciate the value of open conversation.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

BENEATHA: (With appreciation of the two meanings, which escape RUTH and WALTER) Un-huh.  (source) Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, 1959

But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

We expect our home to appreciate in value and make retiring easier when our children have moved out and we sell it.

This car is only going to appreciate in value.  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

...we have increased our capital to $11,587.50, an appreciation of twenty-seven point eight percent calculated on an annual basis.  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

Who do they think appreciates these offerings of theirs, these worshippers of Laura?†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Webster ... gave his imprimatur to to appreciate (i.e., to rise in value)...  (source) Henry L. Mencken, The American Language, 1919

The colored lady said the pieces [of furniture] had aged and appreciated.  (source) Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster, 1987

I do look forward to your criticisms, which, to my shame and glory, are always grand appreciations.†  (source) D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, 1913

Real estate advertisements were full of testimonials to its location and appreciating values.  (source) Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, 2003

He appreciates that they are trying to play the game.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

The coins over the years have, as you might imagine, appreciated in value enormously.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

He was a pure man of letters, untimely born in a world that had no need of letters; but after publishing one volume of brief and exquisite literary appreciations, of which one hundred and twenty copies were sold, thirty given away, and the balance eventually destroyed by the publishers (as per contract) to make room for more marketable material, he had abandoned his real calling, and taken a sub-editorial job on a women's weekly, where fashion-plates and paper patterns alternated with New England love-stories and advertisements of temperance drinks.†  (source) Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920

"I'm glad someone appreciates my work," he replied.†  (source) Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2011

In fact I've had several market appraisals done in recent years, with the consensus being that my house hasn't fallen in price (as everything else in the county has, especially commercial properties like my former store), but has even appreciated somewhat;  (source) Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life, 1999