Example Sentences

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The Spanish government, however, believed the people in its American colonies had received the benefits of its protection and were now behaving ungratefully.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Some of the women who were on the family-planning front lines 50 years ago get a little impatient when they hear young women talking ungratefully about the freedoms they take for granted.

From Time • Apr. 22, 2010

With Ramsay MacDonald's Laborites and the Tories monopolizing political luster since 1922, the Liberals developed party schisms and retired ungratefully to a bedrock representation of 20 Members of Parliament.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said Mrs. Webster ungratefully: "A thorough radical and not very refined."

From Time Magazine Archive

“I don’t think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in my mind since you told me that,” said Jo rather ungratefully.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott