Example sentences for: flattered

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

  • I replied that I'd taken several econometrics courses as an undergraduate and had spent a year working at a statistical consultancy firm in Washington, D.C., called Mathematica Policy Research . At the time, he seemed rather pleased to hear this and flattered me that few reporters had similar grounding in statistical theory.

  • Chatterbox figured Dr. Seltzer would be flattered to be described in the book as handsome, and even more flattered by the hunky portrayal of him in the movie by an actor named Hart Bochner.

  • I suspect that American and British readers with some claim to international sophistication are flattered by the assumption of some ad writers and authors that a little French will not be Greek to them.

  • And so we consigned many of the needy to care that would be flattered to be called second-class: to the "Medicaid Mills" or to poorly trained solo practitioners or to wait in long lines at hospital emergency rooms till the harried staff can find time to treat their kids' runny noses.

  • Clinton's enemies flattered him in the most sincere way--imitation--by exploiting the ambiguity of the ambiguity thesis.


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