Wondering how to use Thankful in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as grateful or glad.
Thankful in a sentence
Related words
Thankful meaning
- Showing appreciation or gratitude.
- Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.
Example sentences (20)
I am happy and thankful to the African Development Bank and the Government for making water available in the camp.
All of us on the show are embracing it; we’re all positive people and just really thankful for what we’ve been given.
As the year winds down, we should be thankful to God if not for anything but for the fact that God has kept us alive.
I’m very thankful for that because I have a big desire to be there, I haven’t played there for a couple of years.
Even after we lose someone and the pain is intense, we still are thankful for the opportunity to know such joy.
He was thankful, though, that his personal secretary at the time did not allow him to see all the photos taken.
It is said that a grateful person, one who feels thankful for everything, will take joy in even the smallest blessings.
Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the Rest and Be Thankful closing for Christmas on Saturfay, December 23.
I am thankful when i got hit by a car i was lucky i didnt suffer horrible injuries other than a back injury.
I am also thankful for being part of an amazing community that supports and cares for one another despite many differences.
She will be missed, though let's be thankful that so many of her past efforts can be rewatched with ease.
I'm so thankful for SparKy, the Christmas Wish family, and the ability to bring joy into someone's life who needs it the most!
I was allowed to write about such a wide variety of topics — essentially whatever I wanted — and for that, I am most thankful.
Herkenroder added she’s thankful for “an incredibly strong friendship” she’s developed with Councilperson Ladel Lewis (Ward 2).
She adds that the centre is very thankful for the assistance from local businesses and that the flood didn’t cause more damage.
The Australian actor said he was thankful to have been ‘part of something that kept people in cinemas’.
An ecologist has blamed delays in planting landslide-mitigating trees above the Rest and Be Thankful, on “institutional inertia”.
Aled is thankful nobody was hurt in the fire and the farm’s 520 dairy cows were largely unaffected.
Brydon says her son has “always been thankful” to her for not lying to him “and hasn’t had any trouble seeing Christmas as magical”.
Dubose, who served as pastor of Summer Grove from 1980-1994, said he is thankful for the sacrifice members made to pay off the debt.
Common combinations with thankful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- thankful for 81×
- thankful to 38×
- be thankful 36×
- thankful that 22×
- am thankful 20×
- was thankful 18×
- is thankful 17×
- and thankful 12×
- are thankful 12×
- so thankful 11×
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