Clifford gazed upon her with a sort of enthusiastic and self-gratulatory pride; perhaps he felt to be thus loved and by such a creature was matter of pride, even in the lowest circumstances to which he could ever be exposed.
Red tape those as likes it may drain; But whatever the lush, it a bumper must be, If we ne'er drinks a bumper again!
Gentleman George, lighting his pipe, and winking at Attie; "I hears as how you be a famous fellow with the lasses.
My master, too, refused to give me a character: who would take me without one?
But now when I listened to the greenfinches in the village elms and hedgerows, if by chance a few sparrows burst out in loud gratulatory notes, the sounds they emitted appeared coarse, and I wished the chirrupers away.
The air was full of laughter and greetings and kisses; light-hearted, offhand, gratulatory kisses which appeared to be the natural currency of felicitation.
Festivities were his delight; he was ever on the lookout for occasions of celebration: any excuse for a gratulatory function sufficed him.
When the disputation terminated, one of the candidates pronounced a Latin 'gratulatory oration.
At Harvard College, while Wadsworth was President, in the early part of the last century, it was customary to close the exercises of Commencement day with a gratulatory oration, pronounced by one of the candidates for a degree.
All the vessels in the harbor but one were gayly decked with flags, and upon two of them parties of ladies and gentlemen sang gratulatory odes as the barge of the president approached.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gratulatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
