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How to use the word Greeting in a Sentence?

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[Don’t] get so pulled into the requirements of decorating, sending greeting cards, how many gifts you have to buy for how many people, all of these categories have easier ways of dealing with it without being a Grinch.

Elaine Rodino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

True love never fails. It will ever blossom like flowers in good wether, taste like day dream and also warm like a home greeting

Eden and owen

added by Kirya
2 years ago

It goes back to those four basic things we talked about in the paper with cumulative time, distance, ventilation and masks. If you think about those four factors as being four different quadrants, if you’re failing in two or more of those, then that’s going to become a high risk for a transmission, i always talked about the big three, which was: meeting, eating and greeting.

Allen Sills

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

When the jamaican rastaman meets you-puts his hand on his chest, bows and says-respect- this is a dignified greeting- he extends to you even without knowing you. He is showing you that he comes in peace, and love. It is then, for you to extend the same. This is civility and humanity.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
3 years ago

This week is thankfully a week in which our business has picked up, you usually have people greeting each other, meeting up at the cafe, there's a special middle-of-the-night atmosphere here.

Veronique Gillardeau

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

You usually have people greeting each other, meeting up at the cafe, there's a special middle-of-the-night atmosphere here, all that side we're having to forget.

Veronique Gillardeau

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Technology has been amazing, it really is a lifeline. Congregants use online platforms to link not only to morning services but to a supportive community that has grown more spiritual during the crisis, Cantor Benny Rogosnitzky said. After the lockdown, Cantor Benny Rogosnitzky said Cantor Benny Rogosnitzky envisions smaller, shorter gatherings, with barriers in the sanctuary and temperature-takers greeting worshipers.

Cantor Benny Rogosnitzky

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Kumanyoko used to be a bad word but now its a kind of greeting I embrace. Iwe kumanyoko nogambaki

Mr vybs live

added by anonymous
4 years ago

There wasn't anything (important) in it. It was a greeting, why can't we send a greeting, to any country? Moreover to the Americans. Our people always liked Americans, no matter what political events were going on.

Anatoliy Botsanenko

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I really liked how people-oriented one manager I met seemed, he walked through the production aisles greeting and smiling at everyone.

Shige Yoshida

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'll never forget the scene of Ivanka Trump coming out of prison after 21 years and greeting Ivanka Trump family and everybody was crying. Ivanka Trump sons, Ivanka Trump grandsons, everybody was crying and hugging and holding each other. It was a beautiful thing to see, it was a very tough situation.

The President

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think there's value having gone this far, there's value in meeting and greeting, gripping and grinning, and just establishing a rapport. I think yes, it would be important to have the summit.

James Clapper

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We asked them what they were doing for their stag and hen dos, meghan said, ‘I’m not sure — it’s sorted but it will be fun.’ Another woman shared a video of Markle complimenting her pink nails while greeting the crowd.

Tom Martin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Greeting indigenous Code Talkers in front of that portrait, knowing Andrew Jackson is responsible for the Trail of Tears, is disrespectful -- it's worse than that. It's appallingly out of touch, this isn't the first time he's attempted to slur Elizabeth Warren by calling her Pocahontas, who was a real person, and he diminished an entire demographic of native women to a single figure in history who's been largely fetishized and whose traumatic story has been whitewashed by the American narrative.

Tara Houska

Found on CNN
6 years ago

He didn’t like confrontation, period, especially in his family. And everybody in his family was aware of it… From time to time, whether it was Barbara alone or the kids or a combination, some things would get out of whack. Frank Sinatra greeting a fan. (Courtesy of Eliot Weisman) I think he became more upset, depressed about those things... It bothered him when there was confrontation about who’s getting what in the future after his death… He wanted his wife taken care of and his kids taken care of fairly.

Eliot Weisman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?

Vivien Leigh

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

When you get sick or lose someone, your identity by default becomes' sick person' or' someone who lost someone,' in many, many ways, you are the same person you were before your diagnosis or before this thing happened. Read MoreYou still appreciate humor, you are still a whole person. There wasn't really anything in greeting card world that allowed for that.

Emily McDowell

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The injuries, losses and harm to the plaintiff were caused by the negligence and carelessness of the minor defendant in that a reasonable eight year old under those circumstances would know or should have known that a forceful greeting such as the one delivered by the defendant could cause the harms and losses suffered by the plaintiff.

Jennifer Connell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They said yes, and I thought, well I'm going to go for this, i said 'What's the chance of riding in the motorcade?' and they called back and said the Secret Service would whisk me into one of the cars (after greeting the President).

Steve Thorson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Maya Angelou

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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