Example sentences for: appreciative

How can you use “appreciative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Having some lines ready to throw back at them induces guffaws of laughter and an appreciative slap on the back.

  • To get started on this major project I've been looking at Michael Shapiro's The Sense of Grammar: Language as Semeiotic (Indiana, 1983), and a rather more interesting effort, one with which you may be familiar, Robert Lord's Words: A Hermeneutical Approach to the Study of Language (University Press of America, 1996), and would be most appreciative of any suggestions on the work being done by those who are having second thoughts about the use of that apparently promising source of linguistic data known as The Corpus.

  • But there is plenty of evidence that it was heartily appreciative of the racial subtext.

  • They can result from ordinary events happening to people who are receptive, appreciative, attuned to what is happening around them.

  • One can almost hear the appreciative chuckles from the spectators' gallery at this bit of repartee--the overreactive, tension-dispelling response that very mild witticisms tend to produce in solemn venues.


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