How To Use Gratified In A Sentence
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Although the zebra long since retired to that savannah in the sky, and his owner herself is more than 30 years gone, the eccentric Winmill might be gratified to know that her phaetons and surreys, curricles and landaulets still command attention.
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John was gratified to see the improvement in his mother's health since she had come home.
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But if he thought the gloss had been taken off his status as a global celebrity he might have been gratified to learn that after his death the procession that followed his funeral bier was more than half a mile long.
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You would be gratified to learn that it hurts like hell and is the size of a volleyball.
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He was plainly gratified to see that his audience was spellbound.
Times, Sunday Times
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First of all, I'm gratified to note that we largely agree.
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The stumps were pitched, the look-outs appointed, and the Captain gratified by the first innings.
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Expanded, visually, beyond anything resembling the comparatively claustrophobic 1947 film which starred a wonderfully scrofulous Richard Attenborough, and imbued with a feverish morality that would have gratified Mr. Greene himself, the film is almost distractingly beautiful to look at, something that accentuates the tension between the film's conflicting quantities, i.e., the glories of the physical world, and the corrupted humanity it hosts.
'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart
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He was greatly gratified by the seven turnovers the kids had, which is only one more than their franchise low.
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Pressing a cylindrical disc of some base metal into the gratified waiter's hand, McCrimmon emerged into the vestibule.
THE LONELY SEA
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I am very gratified that so many of us are interested in improving our written communications.
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Desire causes suffering because it can never be completely gratified.
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But what gratified him most of all, I think, was the fact that before we had been aboard two days I had got Simpson, the sailmaker, at work upon an enormous jack-yard gaff-topsail for use in light winds, the only gaff-topsail that the schooner had hitherto possessed being a trumpery little jib-headed affair which she could carry in quite a strong breeze.
Turned Adrift
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Desire causes suffering because it can never be completely gratified.
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I was gratified to hear of this hospitality and tolerance.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's an understatement to say that I'm gratified by the response generated by the inaugural podcast.
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Meanwhile Peregrine, having burst open the chamber door, found the lady in the utmost dread and consternation, and the spoils of her favourite scattered about the room; but his resentment was doubly gratified, when he learned, upon inquiry, that the person who had been so disagreeably interrupted was no other than that individual mousquetaire with whom he had quarrelled at the comedy.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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The city had little reason to be gratified at his return to power; for it was by his advice that the king in December of this year (1312), issued orders for a talliage, which the great towns, and especially London, objected to pay.
London and the Kingdom - Volume I
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The money was immediately deposited; Miss Williams gratified the two evidences with one half, and putting the other in her pocket drove borne with me, leaving the catchpole grumbling over his loss, yet pleased in the main, for having so cheaply got clear of a business that might have cost him ten times the sum, and his place to boot.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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I was very gratified by the response that we got.
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We were gratified by the response to our appeal.
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Lake we had boiled the Indian tea plant, _ledum palustre_, which produced a beverage in smell much resembling rhubarb; notwithstanding which we found it refreshing, and were gratified to see this plant flourishing abundantly on the sea-shore, though of dwarfish growth.
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2
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I was most gratified at/by/with the outcome of the meeting.
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Jane was as much gratified by this as her mother could be, though in a quieter way.
Pride and Prejudice
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We were gratified to learn that you had passed the examination.
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With this in mind, I am most gratified with the test results and would guess that someone with younger eyes could do even better.
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The disciples were gratified at this plain avouchment, and exclaimed:
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
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And I was ultimately gratified to get an acceptance letter from her anyway about two months later.
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If you're a conservative and you're gratified that the administration seems unfettered by political correctness in toughening up the nation's defenses, don't be so gratified.
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I'm gratified that people think well of what I do.
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He would have been highly gratified, therefore, had he been a fly on the wall of King's office just then.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Mr. Dambar was gratified by his response.
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After a courteous parting from Lycidas, the poet and his two friends repair to the orchard, where Demeter is being gratified with the first-fruits of harvest and vintaging.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose
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No doubt the winner will be most gratified and a coterie of industry insiders will take great interest in the results.
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To which, gratified but unelated, Cousin Maria replied, according to her simple, sociable wont: 'Well, it _does_ seem quite a successful occasion.
A London Life and Other Tales
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The impulses and desires of the mother and partner have been gratified in this system.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was most gratified at/by/with the outcome of the meeting.
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I was enormously gratified, especially considering that Doug's first impression of me was formed at our launch event, where I was acting as a mime.
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FONTENELLE was never more gratified than when a Swede, arriving at the gates of Paris, inquired of the custom-house officers where Fontenelle resided, and expressed his indignation that not one of them had ever heard of his name.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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Roy Grinker and John Spiegel came to a similar conclusion, noting that "a gratified, happy childhood with biparental influences contributes a reserve strength on which a man may draw in times of danger.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
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If the assumed "mediumship" of this woman was not an imposture, some of the many people who have visited her for the purpose of getting communications from their spirit-friends would have been gratified.
The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
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A little flustered though I must say gratified I took off my glasses and courtesied and said “Sir, Mrs. Lirriper is your humble servant.”
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
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The Patent Office's adventurousness gratified biotechnologists, but it also disquieted many clerics.
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-- I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity, in useless or blameable distrust.
Paul Raushenbush: What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live? Reflections On Graduation Day
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The second cause of greed is the opposite: this time it is a spoilt childhood, in which most desires are readily gratified.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was not surprised, although I was rather gratified, to find the semi-detached house one of incredible modesty.
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And she was gratified to see the people becoming disillusioned with capitalism.
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This performance he called a mortification of his frame; but when this sly churchman slipped up and put on his capote again, his thin visage bore the same gratified lines which may be seen on the face of a child making mud pies.
Old Kaskaskia
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Iwas gratified to read last week that most people can't tell the difference between plonk and expensive wine.
Times, Sunday Times
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The luscious passion of the seraglio is the only one almost that is gratified here to the full; but it is blended so with the surly spirit of despotism in one of the parties, and with the dejection and anxiety which this spirit produces in the other, that, to one of my way of thinking, it cannot appear otherwise than as a very mixed kind of enjoyment.
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
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Being gratified, he spread himself upon the couch, crossed his legs in the air, and without another word dived Twenty Thousand Leagues
Rose in Bloom
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If the understanding I attain is found useful by others, I am gratified, and I think understanding is a prerequisite for making good policy.
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The captain in the meanwhile crowded her with sail; fifteen sails in all, every stay being gratified with a stay-sail, a boat-boom sent aloft for a maintop-gallant yard, and the derrick of
Vailima Letters
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One took the propaganda for granted, with little knowledge of how and why it had come about; another was gratified to be associated with a party that was seemingly "reformist" and "revolutionary" at the same time, pro-American and pro-Soviet, nationalistic pro tem and internationalistic traditionally; a third type was more or less mechanically drawn in by virtue of key posts held by Communists in various non-Communist organizations, such as trade unions.
Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange
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Tourists, with whom I had an ardent, but ungratified longing, to establish
Pictures from Italy
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I've been really gratified by the tenor of the responses here.
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Here's a man who clearly knows how to achieve the lineaments of gratified desire on the faces of his women, as I think William Blake once phrased it.
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The Queen cast not an ungratified glance on a large mirror, which, hanging on one side of the apartment, and illuminated by the torch-light, reflected her beautiful face and person.
The Abbot
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Any new wrinkle that retailers can offer to create more good will and turn a discomfited grouser into a gratified shopper's companion makes good sense.
A New Sales Incentive
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Mr. Dambar was gratified by his response.
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Pressing a cylindrical disc of some base metal into the gratified waiter's hand, McCrimmon emerged into the vestibule.
THE LONELY SEA
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The UN has drafted more than a dozen treaties addressing terrorism, but without an agreed upon definition of the term, the central treaty on the subject, the Comprehensive Convention against Terrorism, is both incomplete and ungratified.
Kerry Kennedy: A New Approach to Terrorism
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But there were more men killed in half an hour in that almost forgotten battle, than in all this mighty war we hear so much about. Ah! "he continued," they think we are vastly gratified when they 'fraternise' with us on our battlefields and decorate the graves of our dead.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections
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It gratified me to know that she would soon be well again.
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We were gratified by the response to our appeal.
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I'd just like to say that I'm gratified and thrilled to be included in such company, and thanks to everyone who helped make all this possible.
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Finding her wish ungratified, she fell sick, and the symptoms soon became so alarming, that he (Dr. Grummidge) was called in.
Sketches by Boz
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I was gratified by their invitation.
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We watched in anticipation each evening as the sun was swallowed by the horizon, gratified time and again by a dazzle of reds, pinks, oranges and purples and that evasive flash of green.
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After much difficulty Townshend obtained the augmentation, with the proviso that 12,000 troops should be kept in the country, and the patriotic party, Lord Charlemont, Lucas, Flood, and others, were gratified by the octennial act limiting the duration of parliament to eight years.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration
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But after these desires were gratified, ‘less important’ desires would be gratified.
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No stranger to publicity, Wilson was most gratified by the media frenzy that greeted this apparent heresy.
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Indeed, I am gratified that he condescended to address one of three seminal questions which I directed in response to his treatise on electoral systems and good governance.
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He was plainly gratified to see that his audience was spellbound.
Times, Sunday Times
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Timidity solicits that mercy which pride is most gratified to grant; the blushes of juvenile shame atone for the deficiencies which cause them; and aukwardness itself, in the unfounded terrors of youth, is perhaps more interesting than grace.
Camilla
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He thumbed the button, gratified when the arm of blue-white light appeared in front of him, illuminating Kate as she floated down to the same depth.
Gideon’s war
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But it may still be gratified to find that it has a sizeable proportion of the public on its side.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the left hand they dipped up sand, handled this skilfully or "dextrously" with the right hand, so that in a few minutes they could give grains of gold to the gratified explorers.
The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
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It gratified me to know that she would soon be well again.
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Tayeto expressed his wonder and delight with still less restraint, and danced along the street in a kind of extasy, examining every object with a restless and eager curiosity, which was every moment excited and gratified.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
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Iwas gratified to read last week that most people can't tell the difference between plonk and expensive wine.
Times, Sunday Times
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If my intense desire to see the friend, from whom I have parted, does not bring him from the other side of the world, or take me thither; if the mother's agonised prayer that her child should live has not prevented him from dying; experience certainly affords no presumption that the strong desire to be alive after death, which we call the aspiration after immortality, is any more likely to be gratified.
Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
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She had been surprised and gratified by Mrs Hendry's embrace.
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The reader is kept in an anticipatory state of excitement which is gratified only in the release afforded by the final solution in the last pages.
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It was a condition not to be expressed by such terms as a gratified church might have been able to concede -- by some elevation to a higher sphere of influence or other worldly favour; it was a figure baldly commercial, expressible, that is, in pounds, shillings and pence.
South Wind
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The corrupt and opulent nobles of Rome gratified every vice that could be collected from the might conflux of nations and manners, they lived without restraint in the patient and humble society of their slaves and parasites.
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Now, the more the audience is told about the hero, the more their legitimate, indeed, induced desire is gratified, the less they care.
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I was gratified, not because the teal was gone but because I would have felt like a dufus if I'd missed something so exciting.
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Thus far, we are extremely gratified by the results, but the road has not been easy.
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I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable distrust.
Women’s writing « paper fruit
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The present owners of such a residence may be gratified by how much their property is worth.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am gratified to find that history does indeed support the confidence I place in reading, studying, and applying the ancient truths.
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Reverend Mr Alfred Feeder, M.A., on the way home, that if she could only have seen Cicero in his retirement at Tusculum, she would not have had a wish, now, ungratified.
Dombey and Son
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Despite some signs of nerves her performance was well reviewed and she received nine curtain calls from one particularly gratified audience.
Times, Sunday Times
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I took your pyracantha link and was gratified to see that you have some of the same childhood memories I do.
Looking For Shade* « Fairegarden
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On the whole I'm deeply gratified and honoured by the friendship and respect I am offered there.
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The result (as poets painted it) was withdrawal from the world — the gratified lover because he had his love and needed nothing else, the ungratified because he did not, and life was not worth living.
Ancient & modern
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Built some 4,500 years ago as way-stations to the afterlife, they are the lineaments of gratified desire.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
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But I think he feels much more gratified and part of the band because he does contribute.
The Sun
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A life of continuous gratification of desire may be better, other things being equal, than one where the same desires were not gratified.
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When deprived of that immediate gratification, we feel, well, ungratified.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Disconnectivity Anxiety
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The passion of revenge, which had in part stimulated her to the commission of this atrocious deed, died, even at the moment when it was gratified, and left her to the horrors of unavailing pity and remorse, which would probably have empoisoned all the years she had promised herself with the Marquis de Villeroi, had her expectations of an alliance with him been realized.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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It was impossible to say how much he should be gratified by being employed on such an errand.
Emma
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Desire causes suffering because it can never be completely gratified.
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He said he was'extremely gratified to hear that they found me to be difficult'.
Times, Sunday Times
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It gratified me to know that she would soon be well again.
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Almost all of them had felt his power; almost all, in withdrawing their fencible men from their own glens, left their families and property exposed to his vengeance; all, without exception, were desirous of diminishing his sovereignty; and most of them lay so near his territories, that they might reasonably hope to be gratified by a share of his spoil.
A Legend of Montrose
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They were gratified that America kept its promise.
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I was most gratified at/by/with the outcome of the meeting.
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It is commendable and desirable, but not essential to the public need, that our aesthetic desires be gratified.
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The coarseness of her voice gratified me.
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I was gratified and somewhat surprised to find the Apparitional One stamping into the kitchen, beaming, and holding out five whole pounds - since it is us, normally speaking, that pay him.
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So, I didn't know how it would be received, but I was gratified.
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His lordship kindly gratified them as much as possible, with a sight of his person, by repeatedly presenting himself at the window; and was as repeatedly greeted by the grateful and applausive shouts of the surrounding multitude, invoking Heaven's best blessings on the noble champion of his country.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
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His heart being thus disburdened, and his impatience gratified, he became so calm and composed, that Don Diego was equally pleased and astonished at the air of serenity with which he came forth, and embraced him with warm acknowledgments of his goodness and attachment.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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He looked embarrassed when I said it, but genuinely gratified, and then be shuffled off without a single word more.
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In the Virgin of the French Middle Ages he found the ideal that allowed him to transform his ungratified love into worship and to create a role for himself that was less demeaning than “tame cat.”
The Five of Hearts
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Palmerston, who expressed himself as "extremely flattered and highly gratified" by the references to himself, did not in terms reprehend the language used of the two Sovereigns, and added, in a phrase immortalised by Leech's cartoon, that
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
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We gratified our friend's curiosity.
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It has been very important to us, and we are gratified that so many of your readers clearly take the time to learn about our programs through you.
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Pedagogue comes to the art of viatic pottery and porcelain that serves as to devote oneself to to want education and tie of actual production phase all the time, he feels very gratified.
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The drug addict's mind grows hungry for drugs as his stomach growls for food, and nothing other than drugs can make him gratified and happy. Dr T.P.Chia
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He was plainly gratified to see that his audience was spellbound.
Times, Sunday Times
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I proclaim the mighty exploits of that Indra who is ever victorious, the benefactor of man, the overthrower of man, the caster-down, the warrior, who is gratified by our libations, the grantor of desires, the subduer of enemies, the refuge of the people!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
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Being gratified, he spread himself upon the couch, crossed his legs in the air, and without another word dived Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, where he remained for two mortal hours, to the general satisfaction of his relatives.
Rose In Bloom
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- I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity, in useless or blameable distrust.
Paul Raushenbush: What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live? Reflections On Graduation Day
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In this comfortable domain of mine, I let no wish go ungratified.
The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
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She was gratified to see Hal's expression falter, just for a moment.
Sepulchre
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Desire causes suffering because it can never be completely gratified.
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And I am gratified that the court's decision will allow us to honor that simple constitutional principle.
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His achievement gratified his.
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Carlyle is gratified (as he could not but be) with your "kindest regards" intercalated so mindfully into your wishes for my success in emancipating myself.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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It gratified me to know that she would soon be well again.
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He danced along the streets in a kind of extacy, examining every object with a restless and eager curiosity, which was excited and gratified every moment.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
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He was gratified by Lucy's response.
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“Commander Worf will certainly be gratified to hear that,” Taurik said, his expression neutral and his tone impassive, but it was still more than enough to elicit from Chen an unrestrained belly laugh.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
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And your plutocrat of a master, that never does a handsturn of work himself, takes it for granted that any whim that comes into a man’s head can be gratified: yes, he counts that the fair thing, and never takes account of how much the work is.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
