Sample sentences for GRATIFICATION

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Definition

great satisfaction (pleasure)

gratification = great satisfaction (pleasure)

dull repetitious work gives me no gratification
The ability to delay gratification is an outstanding predictor of success.
Americans are accustomed to instant gratification.
he held it rather a punishment, than a gratification, to endure our company
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
So strong was my desire, that I thought a gratification of it would fully compensate for whatever loss of comforts I should sustain by the exchange.
Frederick Douglass -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
She has not often a gratification of the kind, and I am sure, ma'am, you would be glad to give her the pleasure now?
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

gratification = pleasure

"I am sure," she said, "that every one of us here will be gratified to learn that after four weeks of unremitting effort and patience on the part of our friend the goose, she now has something to show for it."
E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web

gratified = gave or received what was desired; or pleased

Do not imagine, Miss Bennet, that your ambition will ever be gratified.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

gratified = having received what was desired

"It's very gratifying," he said, often repeating the remark in the course of the evening.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit

gratifying = pleasurable

"Ah - ah - Madam," gasped Uncle Andrew, "I am most honoured - highly gratified - a most unexpected, pleasure—"
C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew

gratified = pleased

Don't you care a little to gratify your daughter?
Henry James -- Washington Square

gratify = give pleasure or satisfaction

It's deeply gratifying, Sam, to know that I haven't been wasting my time in talking to you.
Athol Fugard -- Master Harold...and the Boys

gratifying = pleasing (pleasurable)

...much more gratified I had my agent Susan Bergholz providing for me rather than a husband.
Sandra Cisneros -- The House on Mango Street

gratified = pleased

Working as fast as he could he carefully placed the dried grass and wood pieces he had tried at first on top of the bark and was gratified to see them take.
Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet

gratified = happy (greatly satisfied)

A thoroughly good sermon, thoroughly well delivered, is a capital gratification.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

gratification = pleasure

These were anxious considerations; enough to sober her spirits even under the prospect of a ball given principally for her gratification.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

gratification = pleasure

He remained steadily inclined to gratify so amiable a feeling;
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

gratify = satisfy or please

"My opinion!" she cried, shrinking from such a compliment, highly as it gratified her.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

gratified = pleased

Each sister could echo the wish; and Henry Crawford, to whom, in all the riot of his gratifications it was yet an untasted pleasure, was quite alive at the idea.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

gratifications = pleasures

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