Sentence example with the word 'gratify'

gratify

achieve inner harmony, board, compensate, dine, feed, gladden, indulge, oblige, provision, requite, set at ease, yield to

Definition v. make happy or satisfied

Last update: July 7, 2015


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The ultimatum of all human decrees and wisdom is to gratify the passions of the flesh at the expense of the spirit.   [verb]

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Verse 16: 16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.   [verb]

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They had been abusing the fair Frances, and ridiculing old Rowley, to gratify their hostess.   [verb]

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The publishers have endeavoured to gratify the honourable partiality of the public for the encouragement of British art, by illustrating this edition with designs by the most eminent living artists.   [verb]

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Oldbuck; "and I dare say Hector will gratify you by communicating his opinion on your progress in this new calling."   [verb]

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Flora seemed to think for a moment, and then, slightly colouring, she turned to Waverley--'It is impossible to gratify your curiosity, Captain Waverley, without exposing my own presumption.'   [verb]

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And indeed accident furnished me with an opportunity of obliging her so much that she could not, with any appearance of good manners, forbear to gratify my inclination.   [verb]

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At length, however, I complained bitterly of the manager's insincerity in amusing me so long, when he knew from the beginning that he could not gratify my desire.   [verb]

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This was a vexatious question to me who (far from being in a capacity to gratify a ravenous secretary) had not wherewithal to purchase a dinner.   [verb]

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It may gratify a bustling curiosity to see nature at her toilet, but that is the part of a "Peeping Tom."   [verb]

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He was ready to gratify any whimto grant any request she made, provided it did not cost too much.   [verb]

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