They had given up the battle for lost, but had determined not to return alive to ungrateful Granada.
They cast a farewell look upon fair Granada and upon the beautiful fields of their infancy, as if for these they were willing to lay down their lives, but not for an ungrateful people.
From so ungrateful fancy, From such a female franzy, From them that use men thus, Good Lord, deliver us!
He had been suffering for the last two years from chronic dysentery; and although under my care he entirely recovered, his ungrateful father never even thanked me for all my trouble.
But you will have to take sides," declared Jaqueline Mason, "and it would be ungratefulif you did not take our side.
The subject spoken of, is the ungrateful conduct of one of Mary's female attendants; and the advice of the person to whom it is written is asked, as to what is proper to be done in consequence.
Then Lord Ailine had always been a good master to him: would it not seem ungrateful that he should throw up his situation without apparent reason?
Let me not seem ungrateful to my friends who planned the excursion for us, or to those who asked us to the brilliant evening entertainment, but I feel as Wordsworth felt about the cuckoo,--he will survive all the other memories.
It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet.
All this for man, for bad, ungrateful man, The true God suffer'd!
But it would be a singularly ungrateful memory which should, in this place, leave the reader with the idea that the Chanson de Geste as such is merely monotonous and dull.
I think you very unreasonable, and very ungrateful too, for I have always been your friend, Plantagenet, and I am sure you know it.
I am sure, dear George, if I did not love you, I should be the most ungratefulof beings: you are our only friend.
Dear mother, it would be ungrateful for me ever to forget that.
How ungratefulyou must think me, and what a fool into the bargain after all my experience!
Jacky, that fellow, Abner, was a bad man--an ungrateful man.
Oh, what an ungrateful girl she was that she could not love such a man!
Men are ungrateful at times, but the soil is never ungrateful, it always makes a return for the pains we give it.
Ungrateful you are not, but you are naturally a fool--a weak, flexible fool.
Forgetful of the trial by fire, forgetful of Sita's devotion to him through weal and woe, the ungrateful Rama immediately ordered her to the forest in which they had spent together the happy years of their exile.
But would these have been left, had the ungrateful boys been strong enough to carry them away?
He thought it was very ungrateful of boys, to whom he gave so much, to steal from his small stock.
Serapion had said, and she was willing to believe, that Publius was not base, and he certainly was not one of those who could prove ungrateful to a preserver.
He took command of a Connecticut regiment in 1755 and served ungrateful mother Britain faithfully during most of the French war.
Immediately after that conquest the most ungrateful and unjust oppression was commenced by the ministry of England upon her Colonies here.
He had rendered arduous and valuable service to the mother country--he was well qualified to repel her ungrateful conduct and render efficient aid in the defence of his native soil.
Although there was not proof to convict, theungrateful demon, circumstances were so strong against him that the public verdict stamped upon him the damning stigma--murderer.
A nation may be ungratefulas well as an individual.
She was vexed with him still, but it would have been stupid as well as ungrateful to show her annoyance except by being elaborately polite.
But, like an ungrateful beast, I forgot all about her.
But he felt that he was cruel and ungrateful to his loyal friend, his benefactress.
Justly myself herein I comfort can, And justly call her anungrateful maid.
But this ungrateful for my good desert, Enticed my thoughts against me to conspire, Who gave consent to steal away my heart, And set my breast, his lodging, on a fire.
Nevertheless he heaped coals of fire on his ungrateful brother's head.
She pretended to be mean and ungrateful in order that he might forget her more easily.
The ungrateful apathy of Governments only increased the anxiety of nations.
And you are an ungrateful fellow," replied Delahodde; "I am saving your life.
Finally he jumps up and pours out a string of words which show how ungrateful he is.
I'm already up on the ceiling listening to his ungrateful outburst.
But I would not be ungrateful to one who has been a father to me.
The ungrateful girl had laughed, and had not been proud of her large-limbed champion; but when she thought of it now her heart melted to him.
He is gone to Connemara, I believe, to fish, for he is a little mad about fishing; and veryungrateful it is of me to say so, for he sent to us from Boyle the finest trout!
Pray tell my dear aunt that I am not ungrateful for all the kindness she showed to me while I was with her: it rejoiced my heart to hear her say, when she took leave of me, that she did not love me less for knowing me better.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ungrateful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bad; offensive; thankless; unappreciative; unmindful
