How To Use Gratifying 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
  • Turning over a new leaf How gratifying to learn that lots of us have disgusting salad drawers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The most gratifying thing about starting this blog has been the opportunity to get acquainted with so many smart and charming people.
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  • 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
  • It is gratifying to learn that you were a revolutionary in your youth. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the grounds of Disneyland itself, the food is the instantly gratifying kind - loaded with fat, like hot dogs, potato chips and deep-fried chimichangas, or sugar, like the ubiquitous soda pop and ice cream treats.
  • And the people who are back here now are mostly eally determined to make this work, despite the obstactles, a certain gratifying stubborness at work. Hip Hip Hooray!
  • As a gratifyingly sheepish look passed over my hairdresser's face, I basked in my brief moment of triumph.
  • It was gratifying that people in the district were appreciative of the services that Pride Zambia was providing and that they were playing their part by repaying the loans.
  • The gratifying aspect of this was that each position was contested and resulted in the following being elected.
  • Not only a commanding physical presence, the former WWE wrestling champion brings a gratifying level of depth and humanity to the role first seen on the screen in 1973.
  • What consoles gratifyingly , the government Department responsible for the work will have established even more, the consummation emergency communication mechanism to propose the agenda.
  • It's character-building, and gratifyingly cheap. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, Singh has also long been seen as an enfant terrible, an incorrigible roué. There is something gratifying about such an image, and I don't particularly judge him for cultivating it.
  • In the end, the reversal of fantasy and reality propels the narrative mystery of Mulholland Drive, and sustains the central character's obsessive - but gratifying - worldview.
  • It's not true, but it was gratifying to hear it said like that. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It was while the shadow of this calamity, unparalleled since the beginning of British rule in India, was over the land that the most gorgeous "durbar" ever held in India was ordered for the purpose of gratifying a whim of Queen Victoria, who had induced Round the World
  • This was unfamiliar music to them, and to show such a spontaneous reaction was very gratifying.
  • The support was considerable and very gratifying.
  • In the end, however, he found a most gratifying resolution.
  • In other news, it's oddly gratifying to take a Belle and Sebastian CD out of your changer and put in Poison's greatest hits, but that's a story for another time…
  • In the series, the southerners are portrayed as wussy appeasers and the South Carolina representative, Edward Rutledge, is especially played as a priss which is somehow gratifying after campaigns in which the South is portrayed as the home of martial and American values. Matt Cooper: John Adams: Good for McCain -- and Kerry, Dukakis
  • But how refreshing, and gratifying, to hear it treated in loftier fashion. Muti and Chicago Rekindle the Flame
  • the performance was at a gratifyingly high level
  • Taking advantage of whatever techniques were already available, Porter and I worked out enough improvements in microtomy and tissue fixation to obtain preparations which, at least for a while, appeared satisfactory and gratifying. George E. Palade - Autobiography
  • It's gratifying to note that already much has been achieved.
  • It is gratifying too that the link between school and university is strengthening. Times, Sunday Times
  • I liked the challenge of suiting the garments to the women who wanted them, of making a fit, of gratifying harmless desire. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
  • My sincerest wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period between sunset and dawn.
  • Few other paediatric illnesses are as gratifying to diagnose and as uniformly responsive to treatment.
  • After I broke it off, I got involved in an incredibly unhealthy on-again off-again thing with my only neighbor that was so, so sexually gratifying specifically because it was unhealthy.
  • There was the sound of water lapping - a pool, a jacuzzi - the sight of a coffee shop; gratifying smells. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
  • There is much, too, of his brother's marriage; and in a separate letter to the sisters there are individual acknowledgments of each article of the equipment, gratifying the donor by informing her that the 'cutaway' coat was actually to be worn that very evening at a dinner party at the Chief Justice's, and admiring the 'gambroon,' which turned out to be the material of the cassock, so much as to wish for a coat made of it for the islands. Life of John Coleridge Patteson
  • Gratifying for activists, but Murray found herself disengaged from the discussion, including the very large Facebook group that formed, Fair Copyright for Canada. Archive 2009-04-01
  • This may not always be easy but it is certainly very gratifying and you will emerge at the end as a more confident and self-assured person. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
  • We took a chance and we've won. It's very gratifying.
  • It was very gratifying to see his dark side unleashed for purposes other than butlery or pure rescue missions. AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • The roar of the crowd was gratifying as the ball soared through the hoop, upping the score to 90-59 in our favor.
  • Economic cooperation to mutual benefit made gratifying progress and yielded concrete results.
  • It was somehow gratifying to know that this brilliantly original writer had chosen to live in South Africa. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It is gratifying for ambitious Asians to examine the FT's new masthead on the page opposite.
  • In addition to enriching our knowledge of the culinary art, we shall be doing our share of gratifying our gustatory lusts.
  • It was of these luxuries that Margaret was especially fond; and her grandmother, with an instinct that those tastes of Margaret's proved her indeed a lady -- and made it impossible that she should marry, or even think of marrying, "foolishly" -- had been most graciously generous in gratifying them. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel
  • It was a highly gratifying idea; the incommunicability of one stratum of animal life with another, -- though Hedger pretended it was only an experiment in unusual lighting. Youth and the Bright Medusa
  • We had a fire incident in late October in the early evening and the assistance we received from the public in extinguishing the flames using fire extinguishers at our building was gratifying.
  • It's gratifying to note that already much has been achieved.
  • The linoleum in front of the washstand is very gratifying indeed, my lord, if you will excuse my mentioning it. Whose Body?
  • Hell not three weeks ago Mitt was running radio adverts denouncing the stem cell bill in terms gratifying to any witch doctor. The Chimes at Midnight
  • This film is enjoyable and visually gratifying.
  • After the difficulties of birding in deep forest, these were gratifyingly co-operative creatures. Times, Sunday Times
  • Materials Technology Division showed significant advances over last year which are particularly gratifying given the management attention focused on this business.
  • There was a fresh easterly breeze blowing when the double canoe -- or raft, as they agreed to term her -- cast off from alongside the _Mohawk_, and under its influence the craft, with one leeboard down, slid across the Javari at a speed that was as surprising as it was gratifying. In Search of El Dorado
  • Therefore, he lives each day at a time, gratifying whatever desires turn up.
  • The influence of punk is quite sweet and gratifying.
  • Your bumbling is particularly gratifying because times were tough before this happened. Times, Sunday Times
  • The key to what makes this novel so gratifying is character. Rabid Read-Along: "The Shining" by Stephen King
  • Journalism is short-term and gratifying in a fast way, and inherently interactive.
  • I will find joy in indulging the moods and gratifying the desires of all the poor who suffer. Daily Readings with Mother Theresa
  • One of the things that we find most gratifying is that everyone who hears about BillMonk immediately “gets it”; social money – informal debts between friends – has always been a thorn in everyone’s side. First mention in the press « Notes from the BillMonk
  • But seeing as you asked in such a gratifyingly timorous manner, I'll give you a three word clue: Topshop gift certificate. What should I get my 14-year-old niece for Christmas?
  • Emotionally, such an attack would doubtlessly be gratifying - fulfilling a general desire to ‘do something’ and a clamour for action rather than words.
  • So, whether a person is traveling for the first time or for the nth time, it is still best to keep in mind safety traveling tips so that the experience will be a gratifying one.
  • It is most gratifying for me to know that my work has been useful.
  • We are beholden to those of our mothers who wanted to keep a beautiful home (no matter how much or how little money they had) and to Martha Stewart and also to Cheryl Mendelson (and her wonderful and very informative book, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House) to a new understanding that housekeeping is a gratifying and civilizing activity. January Organizing and Housecleaning
  • Trim, smiling, pretty girls, all looking rather like French maids in a play, happily plied their light agreeable tasks; and, in especial, the cheeks of poor Miller (who had stoutened gratifyingly) were observed to blossom like the rose. V. V.'s Eyes
  • In a rewardingly international week, this was as gratifying as anything. Times, Sunday Times
  • So when you've had so many ups and downs, it makes it all the more gratifying when something special like this happens. Times, Sunday Times
  • But these statistics, although gratifying, have proved also to be unsettling for many homebuyers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Having Walter mooning over her and being frustrated was gratifying in a selfish way.
  • In a gratifyingly short time she demonstrated how allomorphism might be banished from the Haluk genome. Perseus Spur
  • Most gratifying of all is the price. Times, Sunday Times
  • His asymmetries make the kind of gratifying sense that symmetry makes in classical art.
  • It has been gratifying to observe staff volunteering information on incidents involving medical devices, rather than simply trying to hide the event.
  • Nor does she depict adolescence as a period of mental instability, characterized by mercurial moods and impulsive, self-gratifying actions.
  • The outpouring of support that I have received in this effort has been a truly gratifying experience.
  • It's instantly gratifying and extremely addictive. Times, Sunday Times
  • How gratifying it is to be working with analogue, manual controls—to see the mechanics at work, rather than trust to invisible and incomprehensible quantum wizardry.
  • On the other hand, it would be gratifying to assume the disappearance indicates that those responsible for the current series have decided to acknowledge that though much separated the upper and lower classes in English society during the period covered, the classes by dint of living under the same roof were inevitably intertwined. David Finkle: First Nighter: Upstairs Downstairs Makes Sparkling PBS Return
  • Since we are able to diagnosticate with the utmost precision the various affections of the heart, and since the discovery of certain specific medicines which exert most beneficial effects, we are enabled to treat this class of maladies with the most gratifying results. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
  • Four courses of food so invigorating and so gratifying, and yet you leave feeling lighter than your lime semifreddo.
  • Hey, hitting the flippers and watching my giant iron ball crush hundreds of little troops was oddly gratifying, what can I say?
  • They're going to be making subsistence wages, but they're doing something very gratifying until the job market improves," University of Wisconsin career counselor Randy Wallar said.
  • They are extremely responsive to romantic attention, which is very gratifying to their ever-hungry ego, and as such they can suffer from rash romantic liaisons that are impetuous and unsuitable on a long term basis.
  • But the mythical basis for these gratifying notions is, once again, deeply disturbing.
  • The yogi forsakes stealing, lying, cheating, killing, and other exploitative and self-gratifying behaviours.
  • Joy Cygnet Restaurant Management Company makes every effort to become China's number one brand for specialty food and its hard work has been gratifying.
  • I'm rather dubious about my chances of making it straight to heaven, unless I die heroically as a martyr or saving lives— which of course would be too gratifying, which is why it probably won't happen. Archive 2005-11-01
  • Theatre is never as gratifying to watch as it is to perform, so it's only natural that I am unable to muster the same excitement over this play as the actors.
  • It is gratifying to know that I provided much amusement to motorists as I attempted to tack my way to the Milner Road turn-off.
  • Nonetheless, there would be a gratifying postscript to the Honey story.
  • A year before that talk would have been highly gratifying and flattering, but now I read with a critical eye, and while I could find no fault with the sentiments expressed, the form of the expression irritated me. David Malcolm
  • But Poetry Inn's allure is also compounded from smaller pleasures, small being the operative word in this mountainside bandit's hideaway: There are five guest rooms and a staff of ten, including three innkeeper/concierges who possess gratifyingly detailed memories for what pleases you. Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels
  • Such an amount of good will and neighborly kindness also went into the mess, that I never could find the heart to refuse, but always received it with thanks, sipped it with hypocritical relish while he remained, and whipped it into the slop-jar the instant he departed, thereby gratifying him, securing one rousing laugh in the doziest hour of the night, and no one was the worse for the transaction but the pigs. Hospital Sketches
  • At one time a considerable amount of mining was done by the Emerald and Hiddenite Mining Company in search of these gems, and with gratifying success, as crystals of hiddenite and chrome-green beryl of exceptional size and conspicuous beauty were obtained. North Carolina and its Resources.
  • How gratifying it is to be working with analogue, manual controls—to see the mechanics at work, rather than trust to invisible and incomprehensible quantum wizardry.
  • Then he let me exonerate Harold from the charge of intemperance, pointing out that not even after the injury and operation, nor after yesterday's cold and fatigue, had he touched any liquor; but I don't think the notion of teetotalism was gratifying, even when I called it My Young Alcides
  • With me, indeed, this question is one of sacred accountableness; whereas with my opponents, I have good reason to say that it is an occasion for gratifying a spirit of worldly opposition. Middlemarch
  • Given the intrusion of the presidential race on the crustacean calendar early last week, we and other pectinophiles delayed gratifying our jones for Nantucket Island's only distinctive export (besides hand-woven "lightship" baskets) until Wednesday. New England's November Delicacy
  • Materials Technology Division showed significant advances over last year which are particularly gratifying given the management attention focused on this business.
  • My personal favorite is Chobani all-natural non-fat Greek yoghurt; it's gratifyingly thick, not too tangy, and has tons of protein. Neil Zevnik: You Say Yogurt, I Say Yoghurt, They Say Yaourt
  • Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature? Times, Sunday Times
  • What has been so gratifying is knowing – and seeing – the results of what would become a personal lifelong mission to spread the good word about hunting to other women while also doing my best to convince men that yes, women belonged beside them in the field. Guest Blogger: Kathy Etling On Why Women Hunt
  • All in all, this self-seeking sojourn has been gratifying.
  • Barbarians accustomed to place their freedom in gratifying the present passion, and their courage in overlooking all future consequences, turned away with indignant contempt from the remonstrances of justice and policy, and it was the practice to signify by a hollow murmur their dislike of such timid counsels. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • To be identified as the new hegemons was gratifying evidence that the opposition's nerve was cracking.
  • Using this as a basis, the oligarchic man resembles the oligarchy in many ways, such as prizing money above everything else, gratifying only his desires and refusing to make expenditures for anything else.
  • They also enable us to treat many cases of nervous diseases heretofore regarded as almost hopeless, such as locomotor ataxia, paralysis, epilepsy and spinal affections, with a degree of success which has been very gratifying alike to physicians and patients. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
  • the project advanced with gratifying speed
  • It will be very gratifying indeed to see such a fine speech as that followed up by a vote that is in line with her own rhetoric.
  • For years referenda were discredited in the public mind by plebiscites organized by totalitarian governments which inevitably produced a gratifying majority.
  • Turning over a new leaf How gratifying to learn that lots of us have disgusting salad drawers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The success rate in the exam was gratifyingly high.
  • Alex: Yeah I don't think we think about the "forefront" - ness or history of it at all too much - it's just very exciting and gratifying that people are listening to and writing about and caring about or music in the first place. Artrocker -
  • Shades, like iPods, give you the gratifying sensation that you are starring in your own movie - not to mention a host of other exclusive benefits.
  • found her praise gratifying
  • As the person answerable (at least in part) for the Lemonheads cover of "Luka" - as I remember it, I started strumming it incessantly on acoustic during the long drives on tour … and by the time we got back to Boston, we had decided to add it to the set-I can't tell you how gratifying it is to hear that the author actually liked our version. Expecting Rain
  • It played six performances to packed houses at Sydney's Conservatorium, and attracted gratifying media attention.
  • Emotionally, such an attack would doubtlessly be gratifying - fulfilling a general desire to ‘do something’ and a clamour for action rather than words.
  • Watching grandpa give grandson his first shooting lesson was gratifying to say the least.
  • It is such a gratifying and easy task to chat about life and times using literary works as a basis, just as it is more gratifying and easier to copy from a plaster cast than to draw a living body.
  • What consoles gratifyingly , the government Department responsible for the work will have established even more, the consummation emergency communication mechanism to propose the agenda.
  • What was so gratifying and set me on a different trajectory was that I built a team and a successful business. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thick bucatini jeweled with bacon, Pecorino cheese, tomato, and peppercorns is even stronger and more gratifying.
  • He witnessed firsthand the rigorous but gratifying demands of entrepreneurship.
  • In this landscape ringed by red-rock hills that take on a spectacular hue at sunset, small pleasures - fleeting glimpses of roadrunners, stretches of freshly paved road - are unexpectedly gratifying.
  • This is gratifying - but simultaneously confirms the intensely effortful nature of this lark. Times, Sunday Times
  • It helpfully reasserts the book's argument; and by its resort to invective — "jeremiad," "screeds," "emotionally gratifying," "capitalist hobgoblins," etc. — his letter offers an instructive insight into Reich's own thought processes. 'Supercapitalism': An Exchange
  • Calling in a gobbler is especially gratifying when you do it with a peg you've made. How To Make A Custom Turkey Call Striker
  • The support was considerable and very gratifying.
  • It is gratifying that Bassam Tibi, a leading scholar of Damascene origin, has republished his seminal work on fundamentalism in the wake of September 2001.
  • It ought to be a little bit gratifying: Boring, beige-wearing mom transforms into wild rock chick - that's good stuff right there.
  • Materials Technology Division showed significant advances over last year which are particularly gratifying given the management attention focused on this business.
  • To say homecoming was extremely gratifying is to infinitely understate the magnitude of feeling. Kushner, Floyd H.
  • Equally gratifying is to hear you spell out the rationale in these terms: P is for Phonemic Chart « An A-Z of ELT
  • How much more gratifying than waiting for stuff to grow. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is highly gratifying that the majority of the poor and disempowered Indian people have asserted themselves in this dramatic fashion.
  • Even more gratifying - money isn't everything, of course - surgeons throughout the country adopted my procedure and colostomies have proliferated. Hullabaloo
  • Double success at Engineering Two awards in quick succession have earned Courtaulds Engineering a gratifying safety double.
  • It may sound miserable, but there's something incredibly gratifying in persisting and succeeding on two wheels while nature rages all around. Times, Sunday Times
  • The series has its fans for one reason: scattering hordes of goons like a bowling ball through ninepins can be gratifying; and, as your efforts control the ebb and flow of battle, there is a surprising level of tactical thought involved.
  • My skin looked gratifyingly perky and youthful, my rings felt loose and my trousers were distinctly droopy.
  • As a gratifyingly sheepish look passed over my hairdresser's face, I basked in my brief moment of triumph.
  • It occupied a gratifying amount of space, and was introduced by a flattering biographical sketch of the author -- the _author_! The Promised Land
  • Turning over a new leaf How gratifying to learn that lots of us have disgusting salad drawers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The results are in gratifying agreement with those which have been found in other contexts. Hendrik A. Lorentz - Nobel Lecture
  • But then there's goat-cheese pasta in red sabayon that's as gratifying as the lush braised lamb shank and lean slices of loin it accompanies.

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