Example sentences for: gratification

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

  • 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.

  • some kind of gratification (more

  • 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.

  • Studies of human development have shown that the executive attention network is related to effortful control as measured from caregiver reports of their child's behavior [ 47 ] . Effortful control has also been shown to be heritable in twin studies [ 27 ] using larger numbers of subjects and has been linked by behavioral studies to the ability to delay gratification, development of conscience and other aspects of self regulation [ 48 ] .

  • It sounds as though your new supervisor is 5 years old and hellbent on instant gratification.


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