Sample Sentences for
gratification
(editor-reviewed)

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  • "Ah - ah - Madam," gasped Uncle Andrew, "I am most honoured - highly gratified - a most unexpected, pleasure--"  (source)
  • ...much more gratified I had my agent Susan Bergholz providing for me rather than a husband.  (source)
  • Do not imagine, Miss Bennet, that your ambition will ever be gratified.  (source)
    gratified = having received what was desired
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  • Bud is gratified, but not that impressed.†  (source)
  • It's often suggested that as a culture, we're only interested in immediate gratification.†  (source)
  • It's deeply gratifying, Sam, to know that I haven't been wasting my time in talking to you.  (source)
    gratifying = pleasing (pleasurable)
  • Don't you care a little to gratify your daughter?  (source)
    gratify = give pleasure or satisfaction
  • The world was a series of fleeting gratifications.†  (source)
  • Across the street, the pornographic film had ended and the crowd began to emerge on the street, sullen, angry, ungratified.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in ungratified means not and reverses the meaning of gratified. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • The particular residents had fluttered gratifyingly in response.†  (source)
  • The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies.†  (source)
  • I am gratified by your interest, and, I hope I may say, by your trust.†  (source)
  • Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification.†  (source)
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