Example sentences for: greeting

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

  • Oberon's famous barbed greeting "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania," makes little sense when Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer) sits glowering behind a curtain.

  • I am interested particularly in how recall distorts to smooth things out, to alter the old, harsh meanings into new, pleasant forms reminiscent of Hallmark greeting cards.

  • Feel the texture of a hand offered in greeting and try to fathom the “Jamaican handshake,” a ritual whose rules seem to be more complex than those of the game of cricket.

  • Television exposure soon made it a fashionable gesture among young people generally; what ensured its eventual importation to the UK was its adoption by the Teenage Mutant Turtles (in the form high-three, since Turtles do not have fingers) as a jubilant greeting.

  • In 1982, Hallmark introduced a series of greeting cards that contained puns.


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