APPRECIATIVE in a Sentence

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186 example sentences for APPRECIATIVE, such as:
1. I appreciate your effort very much.
2. I'd appreciate it if you could consider it.
3. The increase in salary will be appreciable.
4. Colin's face was thoughtful and appreciative.
5. I'd appreciate it if u could call me tonight.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of APPRECIATIVE
appreciative
 a.  feeling or expressive of gratitude
 a.  having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion
Classic Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1  They did not like the dark shade of the thickets hedging the pasture creek, and they twitched their ears at Scarlett as if appreciative of human companionship.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  But they don't make 'em any more appreciative and so on.'
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Colin's face was thoughtful and appreciative.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  As the six evenings had dwindled away, to five, to four, to three, to two, I had become more and more appreciative of the society of Joe and Biddy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
5  He was looking at her with an odd, flickering smile, faintly sensual and appreciative.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
6  He was very genial and very appreciative of what we had done, and took off our hands all cares as to details.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  Boris smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical or appreciative according to the way the joke was received.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII
8  From these no appreciable beams now radiated, except when a more than usually smart gust brushed over their faces and raised a fitful glow which came and went like the blush of a girl.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
9  Strangers who had heard of many such cases now merely heard of one more; but immediately where a blow falls no previous imaginings amount to appreciable preparation for it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
10  Kennicott's rival gasped at this insult to professional ethics, and he took an appreciable second before he recovered his social manner.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  When the Irish Revival began to be appreciable Mrs. Kearney determined to take advantage of her daughter's name and brought an Irish teacher to the house.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
12  Fifty years ago the ability of Negro students in any appreciable numbers to master a modern college course would have been difficult to prove.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
13  "I do appreciate good advice so much," said Scarlett, with all the sarcasm she could muster.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
14  Just compare me with those rag-tags over there and you'll appreciate me more.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  Now I appreciate your hesitance in discussing the matter with me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.
2  Ballantyne's boys simply stare while one of Golding's boys is not appreciative and very destructive towards the tree.
3  There's no appreciable change in the patient's condition.
4  There has been an appreciable drop in the number of unemployed since the new government came to power.
5  I can find no appreciable differences in the witnesses'descriptions of the accident, they seem the same.
6  The increase in salary will be appreciable.
7  Her office had no appreciable impact on improving global perceptions of the United States, and in some situations made things worse.
8  Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts.
9  Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
10  I'd appreciate it if u could call me tonight.
11  I don't appreciate being treated like a second-class citizen.
12  I appreciate your concern , but honestly, I'm fine.
13  I'd appreciate it if you could consider it.
14  We would appreciate it if you could send us your comments.
15  I appreciate your effort very much.