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Example sentences for: gratification

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

He mentions, for example, names that honor persons, names that have a religious background, names that express ego gratification and toponymic habituation (in which familiar names from the homeland are adopted to make a place seem a little less strange), names which show evidence of discovery, etc.
Beatty doesn't need the ego gratification of public politics.
Pleasure, for Klein, is the opposite of control: It's all about gratification and excess.
Polls show that Americans are willing to shun instant gratification to accomplish long-term goals such as repaying the federal debt or revamping Social Security.
This kind of picture has one of two thrusts: It either sides with the suffocated housewife who, like Ibsen's Nora, strives to break free of a repressive patriarchal hold, or it demonizes a culture that tempts men and women to put their own gratification before their responsibilities as parents.