gratefully

Example Sentences

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I’m willing to negotiate a trade right now: Give us decent bedside charging, and I will gratefully relinquish every last hotel alarm clock on the planet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

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

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

They nod gratefully as a Polish humanitarian aid worker calls to them across a stretch of land as wide as a one-lane road and promises to help.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024

Gurgi, looking like a windblown haystack, gratefully clambered down, and even Eilonwy gave a sigh of relief.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander