(a.) The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) With gratitude and rejoice, we commemorate the return to International arena.
(3) Murakami expressed his gratitude to the couple for "for wanting to take the time to even try to find him", David Baxter said.
(4) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(5) "Perspective and gratitude have a lot to do with it: I don't make that many films.
(6) The gratitude I feel to Velázquez for this greatest of paintings is untold; he gave me the consolation I most needed in my life.
(7) Three mechanisms of reciprocity seem to be able to generate positive feelings toward the caregiving experience: gratitude from those cared for, balanced interaction, and financial compensations.
(8) Former president Joyce Banda published a blistering press release in 2013 saying the singer “wants Malawi to be forever chained to the obligation of gratitude” for adopting children from the country, and excoriating her for expecting the government to roll out “a red carpet and blast the 21-gun salute” in honour of her visits.
(9) The dialogue is perfect: the broker waxes inanely on ("A lovely space"), and the prospective buyers ooze gratitude at being granted a viewing.
(10) I am grateful that my body will split in half in late summer, and I will probably live through it, being a resident of the affluent west, but the gratitude is ambivalent.
(11) On Thursday, Lon Snowden spoke of his "extreme gratitude that my son is safe and secure and he's free", words that were run repeatedly during the morning on Russian news channels.
(12) The anger may well have been justified but Mourinho owes the referee a debt of gratitude for allowing Chelsea's equaliser on 33 minutes.
(13) Asthma sufferers who rely on an inhaler to manage their condition owe a debt of gratitude to a teenage American girl.
(14) There are complaints, too, from soldiers in the field that live information is not always transferred to them fast enough, but they, too, express gratitude for snippets passed on about potential Taliban attacks.
(15) Expressing his gratitude to all foreign countries for the aid, Vucic said Serbia now needed "food, baby food, diapers, all kind of clothes, medicaments, bottled water, disinfection and hygienic resources".
(16) A few months on, in the offices of the book's publisher, overlooking the Thames, Georgia Gould still carries that mix of grief and gratitude with her.
(17) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(18) Every member of staff owes him a debt of gratitude, and I am sure I speak for us all in wishing him well for the future.'
(19) I will do it with a heart filled with gratitude, with a deep and dividing love for our country, and with nothing but optimism and confidence for the days ahead.
(20) "In my opinion we owe Tayyip Erdoğan a debt of gratitude," she added.
Thanksgiving
Definition:
(n.) The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.
(n.) A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macy’s said more than 15,000 people were lined up outside its flagship New York City store when it opened its doors at 6pm on Thanksgiving.
(2) But it is now widely understood this Thanksgiving story is a fictional history.
(3) Record numbers of shoppers hit the stores this weekend for the Thanksgiving Day sales but retail experts are sceptical that the trend can continue into a bumper Monday for online retailers.
(4) Other media reports defined that as a place used for “lewdness, assignation or prostitution.” Norfolk police had arrested Ball and another Richmond man the night before Thanksgiving when they were found together in a parked car in a local park.
(5) Thanksgiving this year should be a worldwide celebration to honor the water protectors and recognize the spiritual battle that has sustained us since the arrival of Columbus,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota.
(6) "I apologise once again to the victims and their families for the terrible suffering that has been brought to bear by these crimes," Pell told a mass of thanksgiving on Thursday night.
(7) I feel that eventually all of these retailers will be open all day on Thursday and Thanksgiving will be nothing but a holiday on a calendar,” said Sozzi.
(8) Now, new employees are always warned, “Just wait until Thanksgiving.” Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays.
(9) This should be the year that water is honored at the Thanksgiving table.” And many enjoy the opportunity to get together with family for a meal, despite the holiday’s origin myth.
(10) As soon as that door opens they are in there and it’s like Black Friday,” Cary said, referring to the manic behaviour of shoppers during the US discount shopping day around Thanksgiving.
(11) John Piper, lead parade designer Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Piper, lead designer, Macy’s Parade Studio for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
(12) A time when we remember a feast, the first Thanksgiving, on Plymouth plantation in the autumn of 1621.
(13) We take care of the customers, but at the same time, I’d wish to have Thanksgiving with my family,” she says.
(14) We really are witnessing history here because we are seeing the shift of the economy – from focused on the state sector to consumption.” Last year, Alibaba’s websites and other Chinese online retailers together sold about $9.3bn worth of goods on Singles Day – about 10 times more than on a typical shopping day in the country and nearly five times the amount sold in the US on Cyber Monday – the Monday following Thanksgiving and the world’s second largest online sales event.
(15) "Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit.
(16) Cumberbatch need not take the news too harshly: the top 10 of flops assembled by the magazine ahead of the annual Thanksgiving holiday in the US is filled with numerous films featuring well known stars.
(17) As millions of American shoppers headed to stores in search of post-Thanksgiving bargains, scores of demonstrators interrupted Black Friday shopping in St Louis as part of a retail boycott over the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson.
(18) Morrissey has attacked President Obama and the tradition of turkey-eating on Thanksgiving, in a blog post on his website entitled 'Thankskilling' .
(19) We want millions of Americans to know that their Thanksgiving is not going to be interrupted by an immigration agent.” Gutiérrez insisted he had not got any inside track on what the White House was or was not planning, despite media reports that action was imminent.
(20) If you don’t win on Thanksgiving, the turkey doesn’t taste so good.