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Example sentences for "thanking"

Lexicographically close words:
thankes; thankful; thankfull; thankfully; thankfulness; thankings; thankit; thankless; thanklessness; thanks
  1. I take this opportunity of thanking all those gentlemen who so kindly subscribed to the Expedition Fund.

  2. Again thanking them for the honour done the members of the new Council, Mr. Carr resumed his seat amidst great applause.

  3. I am almost ashamed to be thanking you but now for a most entertaining letter of two sheets, dated December 22, but I seriously had nothing to form an answer.

  4. After leaving her, I overheard her thanking God for this fortunate adventure.

  5. He fell sick a few days afterwards and expired with the most Christian dispositions, thanking God for having granted his prayer.

  6. We also, entering into his mood, passed our mugs continually, thanking him in a low tone and keeping in the main silent.

  7. Thanking him, therefore, and considering how charming was the loose habit of small uncentralized societies, I went merrily on to the bridge, meaning to walk across it by stepping from sleeper to sleeper.

  8. The committee, however, generally reprinted the articles in their own organ, thanking the critics for so successfully advertising their efforts, after which no more was heard from them.

  9. Never was a better woman than your Helen, and you thanking God you've lost her!

  10. I'm thanking God because now I shall never see her stand up on the waste by Lexden Road,' says he.

  11. He smiled now, saying that he had been as impulsive as the merest boy, thanking fortune that he could rejoice in the impulse instead of condemning it--an end which a priori would have seemed much the more probable.

  12. This given, he went off to his club, thanking heaven that he was quit of a very tiresome business.

  13. Grantley rode on to the inn, thanking fate, realising now how narrow the chance had been.

  14. I'd much rather be Potts, sir, thanking you all the same.

  15. Mrs. Goldie was unfortunately dead before the author had given his name to these volumes, so he lost all opportunity of thanking that lady for her highly valuable communication.

  16. You whigs are aye thanking God for something," said the ruffian.

  17. After thanking God for a discovery so dear to her feelings, Mrs. Butler began to consider what use she should make of it.

  18. Lady Bassett wrote to Mr. Rolfe, thanking him again for his advice, and telling him how it worked.

  19. Margery sighed, and thanking the lawyer she left him with a tear for the Baron in her eye.

  20. I shall look for another opportunity of thanking you to-morrow.

  21. This gave me an opportunity of thanking him for his little attentions.

  22. I wound up by thanking my father for his devotion to me: I deemed it, I said, excessive and mistaken in the recent instance, but it was for me.

  23. Temple did me a further wrong by almost thanking me on Janet's behalf for my sustained love for her, while he praised the very qualities of pride and a spirited sense of obligation which had reduced her to dread my unforgivingness.

  24. I spared Colonel Heddon the revelation of my relationship to his hero, thanking his garrulity for interrupting me.

  25. God has mingled many great mercies with this affliction, and I do not know that I ever in my life so felt the delight of praying to and thanking Him.

  26. If we spent more time in thanking God for what He has done for us, He would do more.

  27. Dear little baby thought I was knitting for her special pleasure, for her bright eyes would always follow the needles as she lay upon my lap, and she would smile now and then as if thanking me for my trouble.

  28. I thought I was saying a very ordinary thing when I spoke of thanking God for His long years of discipline, but very likely life did not look to me at your age as it does now.

  29. The attorney-general had no answer to make to this; so he expressed a quiet hope that whatever settlement was finally made would be satisfactory; and Mr Harding withdrew, thanking the great man for his kind attention.

  30. Again, thanking you for your kind contribution, and hoping to receive more from you in the near future, we remain, etc.

  31. And as they waxed maudlin he studied them, watching the beast rise and master them and thanking God that he was no longer as they.

  32. While they sat silent, according to some accounts, the Duke of Shrewsbury arose, and gravely thanking the Whig peers for their courtesy in attending the council, accepted their co-operation in the name of all the others present.

  33. Her face seemed to grow a shade colder, then the cloud passed and she was smiling and thanking Mrs. Crozier again, for her intended kindness to Betty Hanson.

  34. And so on, for ten long, fear laden, wretched minutes, at the end of which the hapless wretch slunk away, thanking God that he had not been dismissed or that his wretched two and forty shillings had not been reduced to thirty or less.

  35. A perspiring line, we shuffled slowly forward, thanking God that we were not as the Europeans, but had had the good sense to be born Americans.

  36. I recovered from my surprise sufficiently to understand that they were thanking me for my good will while they were constantly reiterating: "It is your food and you will need every bit of it.

  37. I drank it, and, thanking them, started off.

  38. It is not prayer as we Christians call praying; it is only just our Japanese way of thanking Sun San for his great beauty, and the much good he does flowers, and people, and everything.

  39. Relatives of the countess came in presently, greeting and thanking the illustrious visitors in her behalf.

  40. Accordingly, I dispatched a letter to Mr. Jardine, thanking him for what he so kindly said in his letter, and informing him how matters stood, and saying that I hoped to arrive at La Esperanza during the last week in August.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thanking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.