Sentence examples for only congratulate from inspiring English sources

We can only congratulate the composer on his taste — in refusing patronage, that is.

And if that sounds patronising, I can only congratulate you on being clever enough to notice.

I can only congratulate the 2,987 lucky individuals who received their certificates within 15 days.

I can only congratulate the players as this means we can look forward".

"We can only congratulate ourselves collectively," Marc Poncin, the group's emergency director in Guinea, wrote to Dr. Diakité, in the health ministry.

"It is something magnificent to defend our title and I can only congratulate our coach and players," said the Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in a statement.

Trump's election was quickly welcomed by Netanyahu, but the Israeli prime minister steered clear of controversial issues, only congratulating Trump and calling him a "true friend" of Israel while pledging to work with him on security and peace in the region.

Kasich spent hours on debate stages and in close quarters with Trump; he mentioned those encounters in his announcement, but only to congratulate himself for having made it to the main events and, in his mind, for having won a couple of debates.

They not only accepted his explanation, but congratulated him for it.

"I have only to congratulate them for being clever because they know how to provoke, they know how to fake it, they know how to gain time, they know how not to give the ball.

The Nets, dizzy in their own fantasy last season, raced to their first N.B.A. finals with enough time only to congratulate themselves before the Los Angeles Lakers stomped them four games later into a footnote of basketball history.