appreciate
verb (used with object)
to be grateful or thankful for.
appreciatingly
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a word derived from
appreciate.
Example Sentences
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Ailworth nodded appreciatingly, now and then, and Doak even slapped his knee once and giggled aloud.
From The New Boy at Hilltop by Ralph Henry Barbour
Mr. Eliot, in his “Survey of the Needs of Education,” speaks appreciatingly of his father’s having caused him to learn carpentry and wood-turning.
From The Women of Tomorrow by William Hard
Mr. Eliot, in his "Survey of the Needs of Education," speaks appreciatingly of his father's having caused him to learn carpentry and wood-turning.
From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various
And I consider it to have been no small indication of the capacity of my wife's intelligence, that she so clearly and appreciatingly recognised and measured the distance between her friend's intellect and her own.
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Framed against the black background of the hall, his dark, rather handsome face clearly revealed as he fronted the window, his black, audacious eyes fixed appreciatingly upon the lady, stood "Black Bart" Hawley.
From Keith of the Border by Randall Parrish
