Gratifying Sentence Examples

gratifying
  • It is gratifying my dear, that you are sufficiently astute to recognize my skill and superiority.

    118
    37
  • Still, his next words were the most gratifying of all.

    87
    43
  • That he understood now how he needed to break rules from time-to-time to preserve his domain was gratifying after years of him judging her for it.

    42
    26
  • The, Local Administration Bill, after being debated for two sessions, passed the lower house on the I3th of February 1909, having at the last moment received the support of the Liberal Seor Moret, though the Radicals as a whole opposed it as gratifying to Seor Camb, the Regionalist leader, and therefore as tending to disintegration.

    32
    19
  • On this last point the information supplied by Flamsteed was peculiarly gratifying to Newton; and it is obvious from the language of this part of his letter that he had still doubts of the universal application of the sesquialteral proportion.

    30
    18
  • On the whole, the progress towards a general understanding on many, if not most, of the questions here mentioned which has been made in the present generation, is a gratifying tribute to those who have long laboured in the cause of efficient enumeration.

    21
    14
  • John was attacked by the representatives of the various nations and reprimanded even for his private conduct, but endeavoured to extricate himself from this uncomfortable position by gratifying their desires, if not by reforming abuses.

    19
    13
  • Marryat's first attempt was somewhat severely criticized from an artistic point of view, and he was accused of gratifying private grudges by introducing real personages too thinly disguised; and as he attributed some of his own adventures to Frank Mildmay he was rather shocked to learn that readers identified him with that disagreeable character.

    15
    10
  • In British New Guinea, the south-east portion of the island, the London Mission (1871), the Australian Wesleyans (1892) and the Anglican Church of Australia (1892), have arranged a friendly division of the field and met with gratifying success.

    19
    14
  • Owing to his delicate health he was only a very short time at school, and never at college, but the love of reading having been early awakened in him, he was allowed ample means of gratifying it.

    12
    7
    Advertisement
  • The revolt at Bordeaux, supported as it was by material aid from Spain, gave him the opportunity of at once serving his country and gratifying his long-cherished hatred of the Spaniards.

    21
    18
  • The sight of it lying in two pieces was gratifying.

    4
    2
  • The finances were squandered in gratifying the king's unbridled prodigality, and the treasury was drained by his luxurious habits, by the innumerable gifts and pensions he distributed among his mistresses and courtiers, by his war expenses and by his magnificent buildings.

    17
    15
  • The efforts have met with gratifying success, and they were much needed, for while in 1904 the Dutch government took away 350 of the best young Irish mares, Great Britain was paying the foreigner over 2,000,000 a year for horses which the old system of management did not supply at home.

    9
    7
  • Their kiss was warm and exciting - deeply gratifying.

    3
    2
    Advertisement
  • His only means for gratifying his eager desire for books was the small library founded in his native town by Benjamin Franklin and consisting principally of histories and treatises on theology.

    15
    14
  • The situation revealed to the astute Albanian boundless possibilities for gratifying his ambition.

    10
    9
  • He was especially intimate with the families of two English merchants of the name of Green and Motherby, where he found many opportunities of meeting ship-captains, and other travelled persons, and thus gratifying his passion for physical geography.

    9
    8
  • Organic gardening is sometimes more work than conventional gardening using chemical aids, but the results can be gratifying.

    2
    1
  • Having children of her own was such a priority that she had missed something truly gratifying.

    2
    2
    Advertisement
  • But, however gratifying such an elevation might be, it was distinctly prejudicial, at first, to Hungary's domestic affairs, for no one else at this time, in Hungary, possessed either the prestige or the popularity of Andrassy.

    12
    12
  • Cavendish also had a taste for geology, and made several tours in England for the purpose of gratifying it.

    8
    9
  • Her thoughts returned to Rhyn, and she recalled how he'd fought the last day they'd been on the Sanctuary.  She'd never seen anything like it, a combination of power, agility and fire.  He'd been willing to kill his only friend on her behalf, and the memory was both gratifying and sorrowful.  He'd done it for her.

    1
    2
  • The major capital expenditure was for storage heaters, compensated for by a gratifying rise in our portfolio valuation.

    1
    2
  • It is immensely gratifying to see such positive work emerging from North America, the spiritual home of the drug war.

    1
    1
    Advertisement
  • It's especially gratifying that these will be the much needed manufacturing jobs.

    1
    2
  • It must also be gratifying for the world's richest man to receive so hearty an endorsement from the second richest.

    1
    1
  • While getting a bargain at a local thrift store or yard sale is gratifying, sometimes the only thing that satisfies a new-clothes craving is a spanking new garment.

    1
    1
  • By incorporating a sense of adventure and excitement, the media can send the message that being an involved citizen is both important and gratifying.

    0
    1
  • You'll also be able to serve your students in a variety of ways that will be truly gratifying to both you and them.

    0
    1
  • It can be very gratifying to make soap from scratch, however.

    1
    1
  • Still, having the Pope as an ally against fundamentalist creationism is gratifying.

    0
    2
  • She is much touched at your having thought of gratifying her by the portrait of her old favorite.

    0
    2
  • Before closing the reign of Mahommed Shah note should be taken of a prohibition to import African slaves into Persia, and a commercial treaty with Englandrecorded by Watson as gratifying achievements of the period by British diplomatists.

    5
    8
  • He had been publicly nominated king of Assyria (on the 12th of Iyyar) by his father Esar-haddon, some time before the latter's death, Babylonia being assigned to his twinbrother Samas-sum-yukin, in the hope of gratifying the national feeling of the Babylonians.

    5
    8
  • I felt so euphoric over what we did yesterday, it was the first time I did something gratifying.

    0
    4
  • For a time at least " the drama's patrons " were content with the higher entertainment furnished them; in the end Garrick had to " please " them, like most other managers, by gratifying their love of show.

    6
    11
  • A favourable pretext for gratifying their revenge was discovered in the shelter which Chrysostom had given to four Nitrian monks, known as the tall brothers, who had come to Constantinople on being excommunicated by their bishop, Theophilus of Alexandria, a man who had long circulated in the East the charge of Origenism against Chrysostom.

    3
    9
  • Americans supposed that Great Britain wished to exchange Mexican bonds for California; France also was thought to be watching for an opening for gratifying supposed ambitions; and all parties saw that even without overt act by the United States the progress of American settlement seemed likely to gain them the province, whose connexion with Mexico had long been a notoriously loose one.

    11
    45