Sentence examples for been congratulating from inspiring English sources
verb
To express one's sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for
The authorities have been congratulating themselves on clearing away battle scars from Beijing's streets.
Mr. Castro said that callers had been congratulating him all day.
This week the City has been congratulating itself on 20 years of UK corporate governance codes.
But while the classical world has been congratulating itself, its 56-year-old enfant terrible couldn't care less.
And Thakoon Panichgul must have been congratulating himself on hearing Ms. Schilling declare of her icy white, perilously slashed apronlike gown, "Thakoon made it for me".
— JOANNE C. GERSTNER It's been fun watching the reaction of the other finalists to Zonderland, as they have been congratulating him on the gold.
"Everyone was congratulating me.
"Guys were congratulating me all around.
I thought they were congratulating me".
People should be congratulating us, not criticising us".
"Norwegians were congratulating us -- and they finished behind us".
