GRATIFY in a Sentence
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87 example sentences for GRATIFY, such as:
1. He was gratified by Lucy's response.
2. Your good marks gratify me very much.
3. We were gratified by the response to our appeal.
4. Dantes must be crushed to gratify Villefort's ambition.
5. It gratified me to know that she would soon be well again.
2. Your good marks gratify me very much.
3. We were gratified by the response to our appeal.
4. Dantes must be crushed to gratify Villefort's ambition.
5. It gratified me to know that she would soon be well again.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of GRATIFY
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gratify
v. make happy or satisfied
v. yield (to); give satisfaction to
Classic Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1 Now that we have gratified the inner man, let us gratify the desire of the spirit.
2 She had already unclasped two costly bracelets and a collar, which she hastened to proffer to the supposed outlaw, concluding naturally that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favour.
3 Thou canst easily gratify his greed; for think not that I am blinded by thy pretexts of poverty.
4 She did not mean, however, to derive much more from it to gratify her vanity, than Mary might have allowed.
5 She had never once told Wildeve of the Parisian desires which Clym's description had sown in her; yet here was he involuntarily in a position to gratify them.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
6 At length I wandered towards these mountains, and have ranged through their immense recesses, consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify.
7 I found everything in a satisfactory state at the cottage; and was enabled to gratify my aunt exceedingly by reporting that the tenant inherited her feud, and waged incessant war against donkeys.
8 He says besides,' she observed, with a slow curling of her lip, 'that his master, as he hears, is coasting Spain; and this done, is away to gratify his seafaring tastes till he is weary.
9 And what he saw in this mirror did not gratify his self-esteem.
10 "I'll do my best to gratify you, Sir," was Laurie's unusually dutiful reply, as he carefully unpinned the posy Jo had put in his buttonhole.
11 Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
12 Although I intend to leave the description of this empire to a particular treatise, yet, in the mean time, I am content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.
13 Lily was quite ready to gratify this curiosity, but it happened that she was dining out.
14 The court, in the inside, had evidently been arranged to gratify a picturesque and voluptuous ideality.
15 Dantes must be crushed to gratify Villefort's ambition.
Example Sentence:
1 "What shall I tell her?" "Oh, I will go by all means," I answered: and I was glad of the unexpected opportunity to gratify my much-excited curiosity.
2 Hence an important means towards happiness is the control of our desires, and the extinction of those that we cannot gratify, which is brought about by virtue.
3 Your good marks gratify me very much.
4 It's gratifying to note that already much has been achieved.
5 It gratified me to know that she would soon be well again.
6 Desire causes suffering because it can never be completely gratified.
7 We were gratified by the response to our appeal.
8 He was gratified by Lucy's response.
9 It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him; and so, instead of winning him, it only "set him up" the more and made him the more diligent to avoid betraying that he knew she was about.
10 Of course the objection wrought my eagerness to a climax: gratified it must be, and that without delay; and I told him so.
11 Adolf Hitler either has a disturbingly big print run in these parts - since there are a lot of them - or gratifyingly low sales, since they're still there.