[ US /ˈɡɹætəˌfaɪ/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈætɪfˌa‍ɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. yield (to); give satisfaction to
  2. make happy or satisfied
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How To Use gratify In A Sentence

  • Andwhile chart success is gratifying, B.o. B is just as pleased that he's been ableto achieve it on what he has come to realise are his own terms. B.o.B: The rapper who put the romance back into hip-hop
  • Being with my patient over an 18 month period was not always easy, or gratifying.
  • Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer. Colossus
  • How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
  • Turning over a new leaf How gratifying to learn that lots of us have disgusting salad drawers. Times, Sunday Times
  • As soon as we encounter rules, it seems to be human nature to start to get very clever about finding ways to gratify our desires even within the parameters of the rules.
  • The most gratifying thing about starting this blog has been the opportunity to get acquainted with so many smart and charming people.
  • There are about 220 students following the courses and the epistolary relationship with the students is both edifying and gratifying.
  • As a young man, St. Augustine was well practiced in gratifying the desires of his fallen nature.
  • Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature? Times, Sunday Times
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