Example sentences for: thankful

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

  • I have “got into a serious hobble,” doubtless; and shall be truly thankful if I can be allowed a way out of it.

  • For the new parks' charms, we should be thankful.

  • In looking back at 1998 and forward to the new millennium, we can be thankful that these are prosperous times for Indiana.

  • At least I can be thankful that I'm reading this for free in Slate, rather than paying big bucks for the wisdom of these international consultants.

  • But risking holiday sentimentality (with the ready-made excuse that it's just the chestnut stuffing talking), I'd like to mention some things I'm thankful for, like Tim Carvell's two (!) responses involving pushing people or poultry out of airplanes; Jennifer Miller's two (!) bits of self-revelation about her dark and ferocious inner life and apartment; Larry Amaros' determination that the Olsen twins wander parched and frightened, not merely in the Serengeti but during the dry season.


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