Example sentences for: appreciative

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

  • Inside: Santa passes out cartons of cigarettes to appreciative lumberjacks.

  • Re the extraordinary and articulate article "Give It Back to the Injuns": If only we Oklahomans were less genially mediocre, we'd probably be more appreciative of your ability to slap the faces of so many different groups of Oklahomans all at the same time and in such a charming way.

  • 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.

  • "He is easily distracted" the critic John Leonard remarked in an appreciative review of Culture and Imperialism , "answering too many fire alarms, sometimes to pour on more petrol."

  • Prudie, imagining herself waiting on tables, concurs that an appreciative gratuity is, indeed, preferable to repeated thank yous and now considers the problem solved.


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