Sentence examples for but gratified from inspiring English sources

More recently, he has described himself as surprised but gratified by the unexpected results.

Two days after the surgery, Mrs. O'Neill returned to her home, tired but gratified.

She was shocked by what she'd effected, but gratified, too: the after-sensation of strenuous work tingled in her legs and arms, and she was breathing fast; her whole body rejoiced in the chaos.

Last April the Trump administration, in a move that alarmed family planning advocates but gratified many Republican conservatives, ended American financial support to the UNFPA because of the fund's working relationship with China.

OMAHA — Tired but gratified, Kansas State forward Bill Walker was on the bench when the horn sounded to end Kansas State's 80-67 first-round upset of Southern California.

After speaking before the Council, Kameron said he had been disappointed when he was forbidden from delivering the speech at school, but gratified with the attention his message has received since then, and that New York City's leaders got to hear it.

An unpleasant reminder of the mainstream attitudes in the 70s, but gratifying to see Mirren effortlessly outclassing her host.

(That one of the visitors was my son, who attends the law school at Harvard, is incidental — but gratifying for his mother).

Ms. Marseglia, Frank and Chippy's youngest daughter, finds it odd but gratifying that her parents have become television personalities, though it isn't always comfortable for her.

These wrinkled clumps of polyester resin, fiberglass, paper and gauze, some with Ms. Szapocznikow's face on them, are alarming but gratifying for the viewer; they show Ms. Szapocznikow using art to define her illness so that it would not, in the end, define her.

For Lew, the end was "gruesome, sad, but gratifying".