How do you use Thankful in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like grateful or appreciative, plus the exact meaning.
Thankful meaning
- Showing appreciation or gratitude.
- Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.
Synonyms of Thankful
Using Thankful
- The main meaning on this page is: Showing appreciation or gratitude. | Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.
- Useful related words include: grateful, appreciative, glad, ungrateful.
- In the example corpus, thankful often appears in combinations such as: thankful for, thankful to, be thankful.
Context around Thankful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thankful
- In this selection, "thankful" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, incredibly, people, anyway and nobody stand out and add context to how "thankful" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aled is thankful nobody was and already incredibly thankful to have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thankful" sits close to words such as burglary, defenses and desktop, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thankful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Are you thankful for your family and friends? (8 words)
I’m thankful for my family and thankful for (the fans). (11 words)
And I’m thankful that she’s my wife," Mr DeSantis said. (12 words)
After Travis has moved on with pop megastar Taylor Swift, Kayla admits she is "so thankful" she had the "tools" to help her reel in her reaction to the high-profile duo's romance that started earlier this month. (39 words)
I’m thankful for everyone I met on this trip, I’m thankful for every bit of hospitality and kindness they showed to me, and I’m thankful that it didn’t end up much worse. (36 words)
A construction worker who came into contact with a high-voltage electrical wire on Tuesday while working on a high rise building on Regent Street, Georgetown is thankful that his life has been spared. (34 words)
And I’m thankful because I feel like the freedom that I get from portraying Dre allows energy to move in. It’s like those adult break-it rooms, you know? (31 words)
Are you thankful for your family and friends? (8 words)
Example sentences (20)
I’m thankful for everyone I met on this trip, I’m thankful for every bit of hospitality and kindness they showed to me, and I’m thankful that it didn’t end up much worse.
I’m thankful for my family and thankful for (the fans).
I am thankful for my Bubby and the appreciation she instilled in me since childhood to be thankful for everything in my life and to express that thanks freely to those around me.
To paraphrase a quote from an unknown source, while happy people may be thankful, it is thankful people who are truly happy.
Be thankful for the money, but also think about the people around you and be thankful for those people too, even if it felt like they didn’t do anything.
Garcia said she was thankful that the regents were thankful, but that wasn’t enough.
We'll be thankful anyway, even if at times we can only be thankful it's not worse than it is.
While he is thankful to be home with his son and family this Christmas, he is also thankful for the continued sacrifice of military personnel spending Christmas away from their loved ones.
A construction worker who came into contact with a high-voltage electrical wire on Tuesday while working on a high rise building on Regent Street, Georgetown is thankful that his life has been spared.
After Travis has moved on with pop megastar Taylor Swift, Kayla admits she is "so thankful" she had the "tools" to help her reel in her reaction to the high-profile duo's romance that started earlier this month.
Aled is thankful nobody was hurt in the fire and the farm’s 520 dairy cows were largely unaffected.
All of us on the show are embracing it; we’re all positive people and just really thankful for what we’ve been given.
Although he was very thankful to the Swiss, Joyce was not totally enamored of his new Swiss hosts, especially their obsession with order and cleanliness.
Although I can't comment on where the rest of our tax money is going, I am quite thankful we're not paying the city of Philadelphia for advertising Texas medicaid.
And although they’re already incredibly thankful to have earned this regional award, the Hopcotts are already looking at claiming the national title as well.
And I’m thankful because I feel like the freedom that I get from portraying Dre allows energy to move in. It’s like those adult break-it rooms, you know?
And I’m thankful,” Rabouin wrote, referring to the November incident where he was stopped from reporting outside a bank by Phoenix police.
And I’m thankful that she’s my wife," Mr DeSantis said.
An ecologist has blamed delays in planting landslide-mitigating trees above the Rest and Be Thankful, on “institutional inertia”.
Are you thankful for your family and friends?
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×