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Example sentences for: congratulating

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P laying by Heart has the strident psuedosophistication of a late-night dorm room colloquy as dramatized by a sophomore busy congratulating himself for having more insight into love than all the incoming freshmen.
Far from chastising Scurry, male sportswriters are congratulating her on her "savvy."
All three of his arrest-story "sources" speak in a stilted, too-perfectly-advancing-the-story-line way, telling the author more or less the same thing, and congratulating him on his genius in ferreting out this facts.
It is a conventional celebrity biopic, lionizing its subject at every possible turn, and congratulating itself for its insight.
There is a peculiar rumor circulating that Stanley Kubrick expired while clutching a fax from a top Warner Bros. executive congratulating him on his recently screened Eyes Wide Shut . That this was a favorable missive is what makes the report so mordant, so mysterious.