Showing appreciation

Usage examples of grateful.

The Bishop was grateful for the acta, but their lack of rigor interfered with the clarity of the process, and therefore the exorcist was to proceed according to his own judgment.

LIFE--indeed, Adams himself--could be defined by what was left to him that he loved, there was still a great deal to the life and to the man, and he was extremely grateful.

I am very grateful to Rene Alegria, my editor at Rayo, so aptly named, for his unbridled enthusiasm and joie de vivre, which made writing this novel so much fun.

Boaz and Alim wanted, and they may be grateful to you for at least keeping us from that.

Everyone was grateful for the fact that the ashfall had nearly ceased.

Meghan Kearney was grateful to American Devlin Montague for rescuing her from the gang of Bahamian cutthroats.

I am very grateful to you for saving me from Queen Beata, and my father, King Voth, will also wish to thank you in person.

Besides I have learned invaluable behavioral lessons from my wife, for which I am eternally grateful.

It is an internal matter, although we are, of course, grateful to ghem-General Benin for his assistance dealing with any persons outside our purview who may have aided the ba in its .

Prince Charles wrote to tell me that there was no bounds to the care and kindness of my Venetian friends, and that he would be grateful to me for all his days.

Charles and Lady Gascoyne are in Bournemouth and would be grateful if you would consent to receive them.

She was grateful, at least, for one new factor: as the branches thinned, they moved through increasingly heavy clusters of leaves, and the leaves gave her the comforting illusion that a great protective wall had risen up on either side of the narrow branch.

Stephen had had plenty of time to reflect upon the trifling interval between the perception of a grateful odour and active salivation and to make a variety of experiments, checked by his austerely beautiful and accurate Breguet repeater, before the door burst open and the Commodore strode in, sure-footed on the heaving deck and scattering seawater in most directions.

We are deeply grateful to the Bridgeman Art Library for the right to reproduce this beautiful painting, and delighted to find that the result is as exquisite as we anticipated.

It found Burgo Smyth on television leaning forward in that paternal way he had, as though he might at any time stretch out his hand from the screen and pat the grateful viewers on the head.