Example Sentences

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I’m willing to negotiate a trade right now: Give us decent bedside charging, and I will gratefully relinquish every last hotel alarm clock on the planet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Your company is worth millions, so you have the luxury of choice, something you are acutely and, it seems, gratefully aware of.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

Munn gratefully reports that she is cancer-free, though with that gratitude, she said, comes a feeling that “I will be looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

"He passed it presumably because it went back and then gratefully I received the £7,500 because I was at the end of my tether at that stage."

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2024

The book was gratefully received by those who took an active interest in geology, which in 1802 was not a large number.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson