Example sentences for: granted

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

  • In a nice bit of subversion, the Tripp reporters off-load a good deal of the ink unaccountably granted to them on copious descriptions of non-events.

  • The fact that your household has been just the two of you since he was 7 years old may mean that he's had to wrestle with his Oedipal feelings that his little-boy wish for his father to be removed was granted.

  • The sentence comes from Geneva Smitherman, a professor of English, the director of the African-American Language and Literacy Program at Michigan State University, the author of the books Talkin and Testifyin (1977) and Black Talk (1994), and one of the people quoted most frequently by reporters and commentators seeking context for the national controversy over "ebonics"--a form of Black English recently granted official recognition as a separate language by the Oakland, Calif., school board.

  • The students show them how to get a driver's license or deal with income taxes, things that we take for granted."

  • Granted, theirs is a most peculiar kingdom.


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