Sentence examples for gratifying my from inspiring English sources

Later I was taught to read a road map well enough to be the navigator on family drives, gratifying my naturally managerial soul.

Right after Big Deal, the book was really an excuse to spend more time in that poker-sodden part of the world, as well as gratifying my three (then) young sons' passion for the movies.

The first wish I ever formed was to wander, and many a search I gave my parents in gratifying my youthful passion".

"The only culture I have comes from yogurt," I informed him, adding that my throat was so sore that I almost couldn't talk, gratifying my family and friends.

Especially gratifying, "my" FF was red – not the rosso corso, or Italian racing red, which had set my heart racing when I owned those Dinky toy models of Ferrari's grand prix cars as a boy, but rosso maranello, a slightly deeper, if less racy, red that has proved popular with many of the FF's buyers.

Personally, I find my role in training the most gratifying; my mentors showed me the fun of science and I would consider it a huge success if I was able to impart this to others both in my lab and in my company.

But when waiting until the husband "popped off" proved too time-consuming, Sayre proceeded to court an elderly duchess, a connection, he noted, that would "greatly gratify my ambition".

Maybe he could start with Joseph Addison who wrote in 1711: "It gratifies my vanity to see such an assemblage of countrymen and foreigners consulting in the private business of mankind, making this metropolis a kind of emporium of the earth".

Cameron was duly gratified: "My aspirations," she wrote to her mentor, the scientist Sir John Herschel, "are to ennoble photography and to secure it for the character and uses of high art".

Usually with an XS, the thing that won't fit into the garment isn't my size 7.5 foot, but this loungewear basic wasn't there to gratify my imperial expectations, having been made for tapering limbs like tentacles, or pogo-hooks.

And by the same token, I would add that my continuing and genuine pride in the paper's performance over the past few months — the period that seems to be at issue — does not proceed from some sense that it has gratified my personal whim.