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How to use appreciate in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Appreciate means to be grateful or thankful for. Example: “I appreciate your efforts.”

Examples of appreciate by meaning

verbTo be grateful or thankful for.

  • I appreciate your efforts.
  • We sincerely appreciate your help.
  • Any aid will be warmly appreciated.

verbTo view as valuable.

  • You must learn to appreciate time.

verbTo be fully conscious of; understand; be aware of; detect.

  • It is essential for the reader to appreciate how important this argument is.
  • I appreciate that what I'm asking you to do is very difficult.
  • It is rather the person whose general knowledge is supposed to qualify him to appreciate expert testimony, and to judge between the experts from different fields, whose power is enhance.1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of...

verbTo increase in value.

  • The value of his portfolio appreciated by 80% over eight years.

More sentences with appreciate

  • As I grew throughout adolescence, I came to appreciate many things about human nature.From the entry grow
  • Understanding the basics is easy, but appreciating the nuances takes years.From the entry nuance
  • I think being mindful may help you to appreciate life more.From the entry mindful
  • One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.From the entry stupendous
  • The discerning customer will appreciate our new range of quality clothing.From the entry discerning
  • We appreciate your input, so please don't hesitate to chime in with comments and questions.From the entry chime in
  • I don't appreciate salesmen who make promises and then fail to follow through.From the entry follow through
  • We drink tequila as a shooter, but prefer to sip gin slowly to appreciate the flavour.From the entry shooter
  • His lighthearted banjo performance was appreciated because it relieved the tension in tight situations.From the entry lighthearted
  • I misjudged you. I don't like your politics but I appreciate your loyalty to your friends.From the entry misjudge
  • Listen, deary: I'd appreciate your not talking about my son like that.From the entry deary
  • Love is: learning to appreciate the smell of your sweetheart's toe cheese!From the entry toe cheese
  • I thought my suggestions would be appreciated, but the backlash is more than I had bargained for.From the entry bargain for
  • I hope you appreciate the gravity of the situation.From the entry gravity
  • I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.From the entry crack
  • I didn’t appreciate his particular brand of flattery.From the entry brand
  • Tipping your driver is optional but is much appreciated.From the entry driver
  • She modelled the shoes for her friends to appreciate.From the entry model
  • The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.From the entry enclosure
  • A: You know who would appreciate this? Tom. B: Speak of the devil! Look who just walked in!From the entry speak of the devil
  • I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.From the entry particular
  • At Lakeside Elementary I learned to appreciate the forest.From the entry elementary
  • I appreciate the patience with which you've explained it.From the entry patience
  • She appreciated his frankness about the situation.From the entry frankness
  • After cooking the thanksgiving turkey we appreciate the self-cleaning oven as it gets really hot and burns off the splattered grease.From the entry self-cleaning
  • His ill-willed interference was not appreciated by the other members.From the entry ill-willed
  • I'm not much of a holiday merrymaker, but I do appreciate a stiff glass of eggnog while the others sing carols.From the entry merrymaker
  • Though I've always appreciated my bed's built-in Bluetooth pillow speaker, adding a ceiling projector really seems like featuritis to me.From the entry featuritis
  • As I looked back on Mr Worthington's career, I began to appreciate that he was a strict procedurist at heart.From the entry procedurist
  • At the end of a ride I appreciate this horse's stamina, but at the beginning of the ride I could do without his excessive spiritedness.From the entry spiritedness
  • Like I said, it's a pretty noobish request, but if someone could point me towards a workaround for this issue it would be much appreciated.From the entry noobish
  • Well, they've been complaining that the packaging contains too many unnecessary warning labels, but they're failing to appreciate that it has to serve all customers, not solely the nonstupid ones.From the entry nonstupid

Meaning of appreciate

  1. verb To be grateful or thankful for.
  2. verb To view as valuable.
  3. verb To be fully conscious of; understand; be aware of; detect.

Full definition of appreciate

Questions about appreciate in a sentence

How do you use appreciate in a sentence?
Appreciate is used as a verb. For example: “I appreciate your efforts.”
What is a short sentence with appreciate?
“I appreciate your efforts.”
What does appreciate mean?
Appreciate means to be grateful or thankful for.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: appreciate (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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