Sentence examples for they gratified from inspiring English sources
He discovered that soldiers coming off the battlefields of World War I suffering from so-called war neuroses dreamed not, as he would have expected, of a world made once again whole and safe -- his theory of dreams being that they gratified deep-seated wishes -- but of the event that had shattered their psyches.
This premature weaning leaves the pigs with a lifelong craving to suck and chew, a desire they gratify in confinement by biting the tail of the animal in front of them.
According to his aesthetic theory, we judge objects to be beautiful not because they gratify our desires, since aesthetic judgments are disinterested, but rather because apprehending their form stimulates what he calls the harmonious "free play" of our understanding and imagination, in which we take a distinctively aesthetic pleasure (5:217 218, 287–287, 287).
Everywhere they went, they were gratified when they encountered kindness, and learned to value it even more.
They say they are gratified that despite the uncertain economic climate, a number of developers, including some big names, responded last month to a request for proposals sent out in May to 29 companies that had indicated interest in the project.
Instead, they released a brief statement saying that they were "gratified that this matter has been brought to an amicable resolution".
N.Y.U. officials said yesterday that they were "gratified" by the labor board's decision, but declined to say whether they would continue to live with their graduate student union or end the relationship when the union contract expires next year.
To an extent, they were gratified.
Representatives of the gun industry said yesterday they were gratified to have won the case.
Several said they were gratified to see the federal government leading the way.
