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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The various passages cited above prove and illustrate that no author has written so feelingly, so appreciatingly, as Shakespeare on the subject of sleep and its loss.
From Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof by Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey) Head
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
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
Governor Wise speaks far more justly and appreciatingly of him than any Northern editor, or politician, or public personage, that I chance to have heard from.
From A Plea for Captain John Brown Read to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday evening, October thirtieth, eighteen fifty-nine by Henry David Thoreau
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
