Praise (someone) for an achievement

Usage examples of congratulate.

As I land after the first sortie of the day a young aircraftsman springs onto the wing of my aircraft with wild gesticulations and congratulates me on the award of the Diamonds.

Mr Blenkinsop, has just told me that tomorrow morning a delegation from the new Dey, Hassan, will arrive to congratulate His Majesty on the defeat of Bonaparte, to announce his own accession, and to settle a point at issue the Algerine galley and its alleged cargo.

As they threaded their way along, Nom Anor congratulated himself on the cleverness of his escape plan.

Along with everyone else I smiled and congratulated the cat, but what I was actually most happy about was that now Artemisia could return to her own home.

Puerto Rico and the Leeward Islands, Babcock could not avoid congratulating himself.

The brigadier said that it was a piece of proper prison reform and that Barberton led the way and the Kommandant was to be congratulated.

On the curb outside Condy and Blix shook hands and congratulated each other on the success of all their labors.

Convinced someone was determined to halt the space station program by the Orion explosion and subsequent attack on the Brazilian ISS facility, the Russian and American defenders of the Cosmodrome would repel the decoy strike force at the east gate and congratulate themselves on having saved the launch vehicle .

Batouch fell back, and Domini cantered on, congratulating herself on the success of her expedient.

Congratulating herself on her farsightedness, Maggie made casual conversation with the old woman who gave out change and kept the floors clean.

Nori, curt, without the usual flowery phrases, and addressed impudently, To the Leader of the Gai-jin, so he had translated it as best he could in the same fashion, interpolating it where necessary: The roju congratulates you and other gai-jin on your escape with your lives and little else from fires started by malcontents and revolutionaries.

Seeing that the chevalier was on the point of leaving, I followed him, and at the bottom of the stairs, after congratulating him, I asked him to lend me a hundred sovereigns.

I congratulated her upon her good fortune, and judging of my position from external appearances, she thought it right to congratulate me, but her fortune would have been established on a firmer basis than mine if she had followed a prudent line of conduct.

He told me that I should congratulate myself if I followed his advice.

I also noticed Don Francisco, and as I was going out of the church my rival followed me, and congratulated me somewhat bitterly on my good fortune in having taken his mistress a second time to the ball.