gratefully

Example Sentences

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Your company is worth millions, so you have the luxury of choice, something you are acutely and, it seems, gratefully aware of.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

In the interview, he described feeling some optimism and hope that the experience could ultimately teach him a positive lesson that he could look gratefully back on in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

The hosts were screaming out for a poacher to get on the end of teasing crosses that were gratefully claimed by Alisson.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025

The New Jersey couple scraped together savings and gratefully accepted donations from friends and family for the $10,000 cost.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024

Mostly these men were all so desperate or confused by the time I appeared, with my neutral Swiss-accented German and comfortingly official checklist, that they were often gratefully cooperative, if not wholly bewitched.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein