How To Use Thankful In A Sentence

  • In response to the outcry, as well as to the fact that colorization did not end up being the boon colorizers thought it would be, the practice thankfully disappeared after only a couple of years.
  • Sons don’t resemble their fathers in every detail, I’ve noticed it time and time again, and there’s many a woman brought to bed of a son who is profoundly thankful for that fact, and expends a great deal of her postpartum energy assuring the sprog’s tata that the sprog is a dead ringer for her great-uncle Lucius Tiddlypuss. The First Man in Rome
  • Also, thankfully, Neil Diamond's Cherry Cherry Christmas includes a version of "The Chanukah Song" that should give that mensch Adam Sandler a whole lot of nachas. David Wild: The Perfect Semitic Storm: Five Reasons Everybody Should Buy the New Christmas Albums by Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan And Barry Manilow This Season
  • Word can say so little when someone cares so much. Mother,I'm wishing that these were a way to tell you the things that I'd so like to say How thankful I am and how very proud,too,to have a wonderful mother like you.
  • We so little to change in terms of forward players so we had change the system and, thankfully, worked. The Sun
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  • Thankfully, some excellent work by the chassis engineers means that there is no sign of wheelspin, often associated with powerful front wheel drive cars.
  • Grayson is one of the most progressive politicians the Democrats have and, thankfully, he does what is necessary to remain in office. Christopher Sprinkle: Alan Grayson Is a Street Fighting Man
  • As darkness drew near I joyfully and thankfully watched the pinks, purples, blues and golden colors of the sky melt together into a picture-perfect sunset.
  • Thankfully, though, I believe that the Scottish art world has wider horizons than such navel-gazing, self-pitying introspection.
  • There are times of praise, adoration, extolment, when thankfulness is more exuberant, runs over into bursting joy, and times when longing desire carries us into the very bosom of God. The Right Knock A Story
  • She was thankful, at least, that the hospital let her wear her own pajamas rather than one of their backless gowns.
  • Archer is thankful that his future wife knows and follows the manners and customs of New York society.
  • I was feeling like that kind of guy appearing in several different mythologies, that kind of guy having the unthankful task to bring over the really, really bad news.
  • But that will thankfully never happen, because without trees and animals, food chains collapse, the air is unbreathable, they die, we die - or maybe no one's thought of that.
  • My article was not written for you and thankfully it has reached its target audience.
  • Thankfully, man-made, synthetic purification processes can separate the good parts of the castor bean from the toxic ones.
  • Ahmed is thankful to his Hyderabad Sultans mates for their warmth and affection.
  • My mother droned on about how unthankful I was for not appreciating her good will towards me.
  • Thankfully she had been spared the ordeal of surgery.
  • Thankfully it was at this point the elevator tinged and the doors hissed open.
  • He is thankful that Fielding visited him again even though Aziz was short with him.
  • He opened his mouth - which was curved up with a slightly crooked grin - to speak, but thankfully the elevator tinged and the doors hissed open.
  • Yes, I think it would have been great had Gilad given thanks to God with the traditional Gomel blessing in a synagogue close to his home in Mitzpe Hila, but he is a free man in a democratic nation and can be thankful anyway he chooses. Rabbi Jason Miller: Gilad Shalit, Iran Hiker Josh Fattal And Freedom Of Religion
  • It is a show but not a contest, and, thankfully, the beauty of sport comes predominantly from the contest.
  • Thankfully, the good people outnumber the bad! The Sun
  • Just be thankful for small blessings. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
  • Thankfully, no steady breeze was blowing, so no wind chill was created.
  • Thankfully it also comes across as an actorly affectation and isn't written into the character's story.
  • But I am thankful to live in times when men no longer have the temptation to write so as to call blushes on women’s cheeks, and would shame to whisper wicked allusions to honest boys. Roundabout Papers
  • Thankfully, the support staff I use gave me the confidence to continue to work away.
  • I _am_ thankful for that," broke in Felix, "most _thankful_! We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses
  • Thankfully, the actor has pulled in the reins, producing an electrifying performance that is truly chilling. The Sun
  • He said he was thankful to his teachers, who had encouraged him and cheered him up when he was unhappy.
  • Thankfully, you no longer have to be a business to get a hold of their superior goods - just this past year, VOFC branched out into the retail hand-knitting yarn world. Yearn-Worthy Yarns: O-Wool from Vermont Organic Fiber Co
  • I'm just so thankful we still have him with us. The Sun
  • Thankfully, the four young leads give suitably heartfelt and believable performances, giving an otherwise schlocky teen soap opera the pleasing illusion of quality.
  • My malady, which the doctors call a bilious fever, lingers, or rather it returns with each sudden change of weather, though I am thankful to say that the relapses have hitherto been much milder than the first attack; but they keep me weak and reduced, especially as I am obliged to observe a very low spare diet. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
  • I hope you are feeling thankful after your supper.
  • Zacharias's song of praise, in thankfulness for the birth of John, and in prospect of the birth of Jesus, ver. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • The second instalment, thankfully, managed to appease some disgruntled fans. The Sun
  • There are times and things concerning which words utterly fail and must fail to give utterance to the feelings of the heart, and this, let me say, is one of those times -- a day that I can never forget, a day for which -- though most unworthy of what has been given me -- I must always feel the devoutest thankfulness to Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885.
  • I was just very thankful, think her guardian angel was working overtime that day.
  • I'm thankful for what it's given me, and regretful for what it's taken.
  • Just be thankful for small blessings. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
  • Thankfully, I was never a Twi-hard though … (is immediately bayoneted by psychopathic twelve-year-olds who think Edward loves them.) # The ReTARDISed Whovianon 03 Apr 2009 at 4: 34 pm Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » A Glimpse into the Editor’s Office: Editing Twilight
  • Until then, I just keep hoping that Republicans will stop caring about what Ted Kennedy will say and remain thankful because it could be far worse. Sound Politics: Doug Parris Thinks I Hate Conservatives...Or Something Like That
  • Elric breathed thankfully and passed into the Tower of B'aal'nezbett. The Weird of the White Wolf
  • The film, thankfully, avoids the simplistic lectures that pervade many stories about social media, but it also fails to tackle how Zuckerberg's values, which are largely Facebook's values, impact the lives of its huge user base. Ari Melber: The Social Network: Because People Like Being Alone Together
  • Thankfully, I read rather a lot of good (by which I mean charactery) science fiction throughout January and February. A Sci Fi Experience Wrap-Up
  • But they as it seemed, being desirous to stay, accepted verie thankfully, and with great gladnesse that which vvas offred first. Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
  • Thankfully, after crew helped her retrace her footsteps, the ring turned up. The Sun
  • Thankfully, both these perceptions have now been consigned to history. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
  • If I got it wrong (not too often, thankfully) the motor would backfire and try to kick me over the handlebars.
  • Thankfully, according to Corinne, keeping flexible also doesn't mean following a painfully angelic diet.
  • Dunsfold would probably be thankful if to-day the "gulph" were wider. Highways and Byways in Surrey
  • We were thankful for the chance to rest.
  • Thankfully this solitary poor moment is but one in a huge eight-minute orchestration - one of the shorter tracks on the album - that flits from section to section.
  • Thankfully, the dress was in a plastic wrapper so it wasn't affected. The Sun
  • I am, in short, thankful for private-property markets that are the main driving force behind these and many other anti-pollutants -- a force so powerful that we today enjoy the incredible luxury of being able to worry, should we so choose, about very distant and very speculative forms of environmental problems such as species loss and global warming. Earth Day -some cogent counterpoints to the standard green koolaid
  • Thankfully, the film clips along at a steady pace and never really gets boring.
  • On my walk from the taxi to KK House, I thankfully ran into Nicole, the Projects Abroad volunteer who "vacationed" with us to Cape Coast last weekend. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • Thankfully, the angry beast can be unleashed at the flick of a switch. The Sun
  • Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me. Chapter 16
  • Mario is always reliable and thankfully this time the plumber does it again ... nearly the perfect pocket platformer. The Sun
  • Nagi is again thankful for his rescue and says he wants to repay him. Hayate No Gotoku! « Undercover
  • Thankfully he'd stopped dyeing his hair jet black. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thankfully this man was apprehended safely and all the officers were able to walk away without a scratch.
  • In Medusa, thankfully, he is once again on thoroughly familiar territory, battling to pursue his own flawed version of truth through the lies, evasions and corruption that surround him.
  • The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. William Blake 
  • The housing is silver plastic, looks pretty schmick and is thankfully free of flashing lights, glowy bits or fluorescent stickers.
  • A few players from each side got involved in a fracas, but thankfully common sense prevailed.
  • Word can say so little when someone cares so much. Mother,I'm wishing that these were a way to tell you the things that I'd so like to say How thankful I am and how very proud,too,to have a wonderful mother like you.
  • Now Berwick is, thankfully, on the road to recovery, the Diary will approach the great man and sound him out.
  • Thankfully, two young girls who worked in the barn came to our rescue.
  • Thankfully everything is cleanable and fixable.
  • Thankfully, they neither pros-elytised nor expressed opinions on some of the thornier issues. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thankfully, as two of these books show, a degree of clarity has emerged after much vexed exegesis. Christianity Today
  • Thankfully, I was excused from jury duty this time.
  • The public should be thankful that some MPs have a conscience and not a cavalier disregard of democracy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thankfully, she'd parked in his wide driveway so no one would have to worry about a plow sideswiping her car during the night.
  • Thankfully they are now following each other again. The Sun
  • We're just so thankful no one was hurt or worse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Whenever we go with my parents to a bistro with pokies, or the casino, (thankfully, not often), they give me a dollar or five with which to play.
  • I felt awful yesterday. But, thankfully, I've found my sea legs now.
  • They are typically obscure bloggers who are thankful that at last they get airtime. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shall with a thankful tear bedrop its latest page. Poems in response to Jewsbury
  • We have a wound care patient whose insurance denied daily visit recently, thankfully the wound care doc took it upon herself to call the pts insurance company. In Case You Were Wondering If Health Care is Broken...
  • If you've been drinking an excess of alcohol and fizzy drinks, your body will be thankful for some water.
  • Thankfully the fashion gurus have stopped short of the tightly laced stays that warped the ribs of our great grand mothers.
  • He wasn't badly hurt-that's something to be thankful for.
  • Thankfully my brother has made some progress and has been able to write a cheque to pay off his credit bill. Times, Sunday Times
  • After that psychological barrier was passed, the remaining scrambles and squeezes were negotiated with relative ease, and any mutinous murmurs were thankfully subdued.
  • By following the tips below, you can make thankfulness an everyday habit.
  • By their physiques, thankfully the majority retain poise and dignity.
  • This is an exceptional and thankfully rare case. The Sun
  • Thankfully, prevention of split ends isn't as drastic as the cure.
  • I didn't have an answer because I didn't know myself and thankfully her concentration span was lacking at that point.
  • No, thankfully, or the situation could have ended up in an ever increasingly farcical court case.
  • Thankfully Ferguson was one of them too, and the unthinkable defeat became merely an unpalatable draw.
  • A strong, gusty westerly made it feel bitterly cold but it was dry, and I was thankful for that.
  • But on the whole it could have been much worse and thankfully there weren't any clashes between the fans.
  • Ann subsided into one of the chairs not unthankfully. The Vision of Desire
  • A spokesman for the group confirmed the fight but added that thankfully no one was injured. The Sun
  • I was thinking of bad timing (although, thankfully, without mortality involved) last week when a listserv I'm on received an email from one of our members.
  • Thankfully, these plans were quickly scrapped.
  • I hope you are feeling thankful after your supper.
  • And for Axelson, that means a lot more scrabble, cribbage, cards in the van, more soccer and football at gas stops, and, thankfully, not much Dora the Explorer or diaper changing.
  • Jim downplays the loss; thankfully, he didn't sustain any bad physical injuries.
  • I wondered how he survived, teaching unthankful boys all day long.
  • Thankfully, this tense heist thriller is one of his finest films for years. The Sun
  • It is thankfully the most obtuse piece here, and the only one in which that obtuseness obscures the song rather than aiding it.
  • They are typically obscure bloggers who are thankful that at last they get airtime. Times, Sunday Times
  • The team were not at all conservative - and thankfully they were not portrayed that way. Times, Sunday Times
  • Send you our everlasting feeling of gratefulness and thankfulness on this special day.
  • It was lovely to see him and be thankful for counting such a man amongst my friends.
  • Thankfully there are very few of these misandrists left and their demands become less and less relevant to normal people as the years roll round.
  • Word can say so little when someone cares so much. Mother,I'm wishing that these were a way to tell you the things that I'd so like to say How thankful I am and how very proud,too,to have a wonderful mother like you.
  • She guided us into the nurse's office, stopping for nothing, and sat us both gently down on a cot in one of the darkened sickrooms which was thankfully vacant.
  • He was thankful for the darkness of the cinema enveloping them so that he would no longer need to blather.
  • A full scale search was launched and thankfully she was found unharmed, aside from suffering from the cold.
  • Thankfully, I'm quite happy to stay teetotal for the duration.
  • I'm just thankful I didn't have to type out "yummo" at any point while making this post. Hey, It's Free!
  • Eager to claim pole position, he skidded off the track with two minutes left, but thankfully walked away unhurt.
  • Thankfully there are many more enlightened towns and villages in the area that welcome visitors however they may travel.
  • Thankfully, the mother had brains enough to send her away again.
  • Meanwhile, howe'er that turn out, I will be fore'er thankful to thee for curing my curse. Phaze Doubt
  • The second period, thankfully, was a more edifying spectacle. Times, Sunday Times
  • But if their hit squad is responsible - another nuclear boffin was bumped off earlier this year - then we should be truly thankful. The Sun
  • You know, Judd, the desperate ones who march for freedom in a show of solidary and support for democracy and thankful for a new life under democracy? Think Progress » Limbaugh: Liberals Are ‘Ecstatic’ About Haditha, Planning ‘Gang Rape’ of War Supporters
  • There's a lot in modern life for which to be thankful and the invention and availability of paper tissues is high on the list.
  • "Thankfully my wife is a total badass, which is why I've been able to do what I do," he says.
  • His teachings included temperance, being thankful to the Creator, merciful to children and the poor, and the evil of greed and pride.
  • After Santa, we had a look around the craft fair, which wasn't all that good so thankfully my wallet stayed put in my pocket.
  • Once changed we set off over the fell with the rain thankfully absent for the time being.
  • Garrigus - his name might as well be "gregarious" - was thankful, too, despite a tough way to lose. The Seattle Times
  • In this strategy I am thankfully aided by Floyd, who is doubtless the most perverse sexual deviant ever to reside in our fair city of Wellington.
  • Thankfully there were others who thought differently and these players became sport legends. Times, Sunday Times
  • “Bloodshed and murder!” exclaimed the Lady, “what does the quean mean? — if you speak not plain out, you shall have something you will scarce be thankful for.” The Abbot
  • Thankfully, the costumier and my mother returned to the room.
  • Nor, as he had before thankfully observed, did her ladyship enamel her nails to the likeness of blood-stained talons.
  • But he was content, so that he saw her happy; and thankful to have been the means of making her so. Vanity Fair
  • I am thankful I have access to such terms as 'gat' and 'packin' due to the impeccibly vocal inner city youth made up of mostly african americans. Tim Kring apologizes for calling fans 'dips***s' -- The Live Feed | THR
  • That evening they pitched their camp on a shoulder of dry ground above a valley, thankful for the respite.
  • Thankfully these are not Norse raisers in their longboats, but the Royal Marines' new all-terrain vehicles, now being delivered to Corps units.
  • Do you know how hard and unthankful a task it is to write these fake few stories for newspaper movie props?
  • I am thankful to citizens who sent me letters of support and email after I announced my resignation in July, " he said.
  • Thankfully, we reached port with our innards if not our sanity intact.
  • Thankfully, I no longer go to this abhorrent nonsense replete with its jazz band and rock presentations and prebyters who suffer from systemic logorrhoea with three sermons per session and the uncontrollable urge to try to explain, even if poorly, everything they are doing. More inculturation and liturgical "updating", courtesy of the Asian bishops
  • Cake forks and serviettes were provided, thankfully not placed under the buttered teacake!
  • I have always been confident in my own ability and thankfully it paid off.
  • I am just thankful for having the chance to play in Germany. The Sun
  • Let there not be such a heart in us as to deal so unthankfully with our God. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
  • I am thankful for fear's fleeting nature, yet still inthralled by it's presence when it is here. Tales of an Alderwoman: Living with fear
  • This year, thankfully, sees a break with that sterile debate.
  • Be gracious and thankful you had an excuse to make a "videoblog", to tell his business with YOU, ugh. Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
  • To his unspeakable thankfulness the young man gathered from the chance remarks of one of the speakers that Dick, alive and uninjured, had been brought by Horoeka into the _kainga_ at nightfall, and was now shut up in one of the _wharés_. Adventures in Many Lands
  • and he went off rather thankfully to attend to his belated deliveries. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • I was just thankful my friends had escaped with minor injuries. The Sun
  • The second instalment, thankfully, managed to appease some disgruntled fans. The Sun
  • Be thankful for all your airbags when you collide with one of these. Times, Sunday Times
  • I remain thankful to so many across this state and nation for their words of encouragement and prayers during this difficult time. Jenny Sanford files for divorce
  • Maybe God wants you to meet many wrong jpeople before you meet the right one, so when this happens, youll be thankful.
  • You are indeed foredone" "But Aldis made no move to approach her and for that Loyse was thankful. Web Of The Witch World
  • Thankfully, one of the stadium staff kicked her out of our box.
  • Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
  • Pubic lice or crabs are unpleasant, but once diagnosed are thankfully easily treated.
  • The era of photocopied vocabulary lists read by rote is thankfully over, thanks to textbooks like Compelling Conversations. Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics- An Engaging ESL Textbook for Advanced Students « Books « Literacy News
  • In their time off, the soldiers bathed in the river and gratefully supplemented their tasteless rations with local fruit and cheeses given to them by thankful nuns from the convent they guarded.
  • When he collapsed it, he was stretchered off with a neck injury that, thankfully, revealed no fractures.
  • Thankfully, the next track and recent single, ‘Everyday’, is much more of a pop rock song with its unusual opening bars, slightly offbeat drumming and catchy chorus.
  • and he went off rather thankfully to attend to his belated deliveries. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • Thankfully, I was already sauced and hyper from the beer I had ingested.
  • We've only raised a quarter of the money we needed, but I suppose we must be thankful for small mercies.
  • Thankfully, our chosen casks were in good condition so we ordered fresh samples for our final selection to be forwarded to Kendal.
  • For them whom he have fordone make we newly thankful! Finnegans Wake
  • Mrs. Peterkin clasped her hands to her head and exclaimed: "I am thankful the lady from Philadelphia is not here! The Peterkin Papers
  • We're just so thankful no one was hurt or worse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thankfully the donkeys and cows were tame, and were easily chased out of camp if they got too close.
  • As for Ester, she prayed, in her clothes-press, thankfully for Dr. Douglass, more hopefully for Sadie, and knew not that a corner of the poor little letter which had slipped from Julia's hand and floated down the stream one summer morning, thereby causing her such a miserable, _miserable_ day, was lying at that moment in Dr. Douglass 'note-book, counted as the most precious of all his precious bits of paper. Ester Ried
  • What saves it as a film are the stunning dance performances which are thankfully allowed to play out in full.
  • Now thankfully he's added goals. The Sun
  • Thankfully, studentsresponded to this editorial, disputing its characterization of the Women's Center as histrionic and taking issue with the weasel words that seem to absolve the DKE brothers of culpability ( 'boisterous''provocateurs'). Leah Anthony Libresco: Yale Daily News Wrong to Condemn Outrage in Response to Sexism
  • I think of our (thankfully!) past president and see the dire, worldwide damage caused by one ungrown little boy. Peter Clothier: Men's Warrior Weekend
  • You'll feel thankful that such a pristine wilderness exists - and quickly apprehensive for its future. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thankfully attitudes have changed and we now have a better understanding of the condition, which is caused by an extra chromosome. The Sun
  • In response to the outcry, as well as to the fact that colorization did not end up being the boon colorizers thought it would be, the practice thankfully disappeared after only a couple of years.
  • It's an oasis for me, and I am deeply thankful for your honest writing and willingness to share your life in some way.
  • Thankfully I've managed to exercise a containment policy that means that we only have six small plates, a large baking dish and a serving platter.
  • The birds in the trees sang happily to her as she walked along, praising God with as much vigor and thankfulness as they could muster.
  • Be thankful that you don't work with infectious biohazards. Safety Buffoons
  • As far as quoting notorious self-hating Jews like Noam Chomsky, yimakh shmo, and that great but thankfully deceased champion of Arab dominion, Eddie Said, such verbiage will only appeal to the ignorant. Could There Be a One-State Solution? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Thankfully, Rucker avoided the trappings of other artists who '' countrify '' themselves. Undefined
  • As Len and I continue downriver, he checks his voice mail - in my mind, often; in his mind, occasionally - and, thankfully, it's always empty of bad news.
  • Thankfully, Champion is less circumspect. Times, Sunday Times
  • To answer your second question: be thankful they weren't blowflies.
  • Thankfully, he sank back into his comfortable chair; someone else would do the job.
  • I accepted the invitation thankfully.
  • I still didn't understand why Toni could be so unthankful that his dad stayed to take care of him.
  • And when the Robin congratulated him on his singing, the Woodlark did not seem to care much for the compliment, but confided to his new acquaintance, that although he thought it right to sing and be thankful, as long as there was a bit of comfort left, he was not so happy as he seemed to be, since in reality he was always expecting to die some day of having nothing at all to eat. Parables From Nature

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