On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Grateful. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as thankful or appreciative and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Grateful meaning
- Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful.
- Of a thing or (obsolete) person: pleasing to the mind or senses; agreeable, pleasant, welcome.
Synonyms of Grateful
Using Grateful
- The main meaning on this page is: Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful. | Of a thing or (obsolete) person: pleasing to the mind or senses; agreeable, pleasant, welcome.
- Useful related words include: thankful, appreciative, glad, ungrateful.
- In the example corpus, grateful often appears in combinations such as: grateful for, grateful to, so grateful.
Context around Grateful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Grateful
- In this selection, "grateful" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, unbelievably, forever, dead, person and daughter stand out and add context to how "grateful" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a grateful daughter has and a grateful derry woman. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "grateful" sits close to words such as composed, inspiration and pending, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with grateful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A grateful Harrelson added, “Thank you, Jack. (7 words)
And I’m very, very grateful for that. (8 words)
A grateful daughter has made her mother reap the fruit of her labour on her. (15 words)
Although Janssen is grateful she didn't have to go through chemotherapy or radiation since her cancer was detected in the first stage, she understands how disheartening it can be for patients to see their bodies change as a result of treatment, she said. (44 words)
We are grateful for Estonia's participation in Estonia in the Czech initiative to supply artillery ammunition to Ukraine, we are very grateful to Estonia for more than half a billion dollars of military support for my country during these two years. (42 words)
A grateful Derry woman and her family have paid tribute to the three ‘heroes’ and ‘earth angels’ who helped save her life when she was involved in a major car accident on the Letterkenny Road almost two weeks ago. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Even in the toughest times, find small things to be grateful for; being grateful for things as simple as fair weather or a kind word from a stranger can improve your mood.
I am grateful for this subtle method of evangelization that Pope Francis teaches us and am also grateful for all of the ways Jesus is teaching us to bear fruit in this apostolic age.
I try to write down five things I'm grateful for in the morning and five things I'm grateful at night-time.
Mr Furniss added: "I’m unbelievably grateful for having such amazing colleagues and I’m so grateful for the training I had which meant I knew what had to be done when I spotted Jasper’s sarcoma.
We are grateful for Estonia's participation in Estonia in the Czech initiative to supply artillery ammunition to Ukraine, we are very grateful to Estonia for more than half a billion dollars of military support for my country during these two years.
I was so grateful, but people said they were grateful to me when I was busking, they said I lit up the street.
Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead's finest songs, has died at age 78. Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart says Hunter died Monday at his Nor.
Sokeone told me about been grateful this year and it was difficult for me to be grateful.
He felt that his career was "a God-given thing, and I'm so grateful, so, so grateful.
Abubakar said: “We are grateful to Allah for giving us this opportunity to be here, congratulate one of us and witness this occasion”.
According to him, the house is crazy but he had a good time making friends and he’s grateful to have been there.
A clinical psychologist in New York, she told the Jewish Journal, “I wasn’t always a grateful person.
A grateful daughter has made her mother reap the fruit of her labour on her.
A grateful Derry woman and her family have paid tribute to the three ‘heroes’ and ‘earth angels’ who helped save her life when she was involved in a major car accident on the Letterkenny Road almost two weeks ago.
A grateful Harrelson added, “Thank you, Jack.
Ainsworth noted that the fans’ loyalty had been an inspiration, so she’d be forever grateful.
All Blacks great Dan Carter has opened up on his ongoing shame for being busted for drink-driving in Paris and how "to this day I’m so grateful I didn’t injure anyone on the roads".
Although Janssen is grateful she didn't have to go through chemotherapy or radiation since her cancer was detected in the first stage, she understands how disheartening it can be for patients to see their bodies change as a result of treatment, she said.
Amanda Cronin told The Daily Mail: “I’m grateful for the time we’ve had together – he’s smart, funny, s*xy and cool.
And I’m very, very grateful for that.
Common combinations with grateful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- grateful for 72×
- grateful to 69×
- so grateful 20×
- is grateful 18×
- am grateful 15×
- grateful that 14×
- very grateful 12×
- are grateful 9×
- was grateful 9×
- and grateful 9×