Example sentences for: greet

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

  • (Those who greet with consternation what might seem to be a publisher's fiddling with counts in dictionaries ought to know that the system for such counting was worked out in the 1930s, mainly between Merriam-Webster and the US Treasury Department, which was then in charge of all government purchases, as a means for assessing the information content of dictionaries being purchased for the government, a responsibility later shifted to another department.)

  • Directly across the street from the wharf where passengers arrive from Hong Kong is the first surprise to greet visitors to Macau — the vast Jai-alai Palace, said to be the world’s most luxurious frontón.

  • But while journalists feel they must sneer at the "same old" character of the handsome wearable designs, clients and buyers greet them with applause.

  • The first lady arrived, dressed in a pale but intense yellow suit, and proceeded to circumnavigate the room and greet everyone.

  • Well, Gene Hackman once described how the Poseidon Adventure producers wanted him back for a sequel, and when he pointed out that his character had been incinerated (in a pit of molten lead, coincidentally), they said he could greet the previous film's survivors as they exited the upside-down vessel with the line: "Did my brother make it?"


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