Sentence examples for were gratified from inspiring English sources

To an extent, they were gratified.

Parents were gratified by the calls, too; such calls seemed to boost their self-esteem.

We were gratified that our president wisely agreed, and our history was not blemished.

"But we were gratified by the encouragement" of the North Koreans to return, he said.

Even the Kings were gratified by a tight, hard-fought game.

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.

Others were gratified that the lily was now out from under Kew's thumb.

Everywhere they went, they were gratified when they encountered kindness, and learned to value it even more.

Church leaders in Britain were gratified when the 2001 census, the first to ask about religion, found that 70% of the population identified themselves as Christian.

City lawyers said they were gratified by the ruling, but Andrew Moesel, a spokesman for the plaintiffs, said the groups would appeal.