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How to use gratefully in a sentence

18 example sentences · adverb

Gratefully means in a grateful manner. Example: “At the end of the day we gratefully set off in a homewards direction.”

Examples of gratefully by meaning

adverbIn a grateful manner.

  • The patients were all treated at the Duchess of Kent Children’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Sandy Bay, Hong Kong, and the work of all colleagues, nursing staff and collaborators in this study is gratefully acknowledged.1983, John Patrick O'Brien, “Clinical Techniques of Halo Pelvic Fixation”, in External Skeletal Fixation, Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, →LCCN...

More sentences with gratefully

  • At the end of the day we gratefully set off in a homewards direction.From the entry homewards
  • Jack Sinclair gratefully swooped and kicked a goal that cut the margin to five points.2015 May 10, Nathan Schmook, “Billings vs Bont”, in St Kilda Football Club. From the entry kill
  • Sharon gratefully assumed I'd hurricaned my last kitchen with my flour-tossing talents.2009, Brian Brett, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life. From the entry hurricane
  • Fabio, his dark-colored twin that looked like an ordinary askal, lapped softly and gratefully at my hand.2008, Sassa Ramos, “A Cold Wind”, in Bing Ramos, editor, True Philippine Ghost Stories, volume 23, Quezon City: PSICOM Publishing, →ISSN…. From the entry askal
  • A long, long sup of beer flowed gratefully down his gullet.1936, George Orwell, chapter 8, in Keep the Aspidistra Flying. From the entry sup
  • Birrell quotes by the page, and we gratefully read every line because we are sure Mr.1905 December, H[enry] W[alcott] Boynton, “Books New and Old”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and…. From the entry quotation
  • “That's exactly what I want,” she said gratefully.2018 May 15, John Brunner, chapter 70, in The John Brunner Collection Volume One: The Sheep Look Up, The Crucible of Time, and The Jagged…. From the entry soccasin
  • In which anyone could at times gratefully hide.2005, Hortense Calisher, Tattoo for a Slave. From the entry elderdom
  • We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergency faxxing service.1993, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial…. From the entry fax
  • A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC. From the entry scotch
  • This white incursion is gratefully brief.1977, Lew Dietz, Night Train at Wiscasset Station. From the entry robin snow
  • As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC. From the entry help
  • The captive wore the moccasins gratefully.1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, A Man Called Horse; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 172. From the entry moccasin
  • Gratefully she crooned with them, so inimitably that old Christine Inglis, on her way to early Mass, vowed the girl was fey.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry fey
  • Before this, she was almost existenceless, 'asleep'; following this, whatever her tribulations and complications, she has been firmly awake, and most passionately and gratefully back in the world.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry existenceless
  • A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC. From the entry summer
  • Here, in a decaying cluster of buildings, the Winnipeg train turns gratefully back to the south and hurries to leave behind it the anonymous tangle of forests and muskegs.1952, Farley Mowat, People of the Deer, Key Porter, published 2005, page 2. From the entry muskeg

Meaning of gratefully

  1. adverb In a grateful manner.

Full definition of gratefully

Questions about gratefully in a sentence

How do you use gratefully in a sentence?
Gratefully is used as an adverb. For example: “At the end of the day we gratefully set off in a homewards direction.”
What is a short sentence with gratefully?
“The captive wore the moccasins gratefully.”
What does gratefully mean?
Gratefully means in a grateful manner.

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