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How to use the word greet in a Sentence? Page #2

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So many people come up to me and are like, ‘You got your ass kicked by Ralphie,’ and it makes them so happy, i think they’re connecting to themselves as that little kid who had a bully and when they saw Scut Farkus get beaten up, they were just like, ‘Yeah!’ They greet me with a lot of love. It’s usually very kind.

Zach Ward

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Donald Trump lined us up, and I thought this was going to be like a meet and greet, like ‘ hi, how are ya, nice to meet Rachel Crooks, ’ it was not, donald Trump was just looking me over like I was a piece of meat, I was not a human being, I did n’t have a brain, I did n’t have a personality. I was just simply there for Donald Trump pleasure. It left me feeling very gross, very dirty. This is not what I signed up for.

Samantha Holvey

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I would ask my members not to allow these machines in any of their properties in New York State, and we would ask our Hispanic community not to use the service because they are not really bodegas. Real bodegas are all about human relationships within a community, having someone you know greet you and make the sandwich you like.

Frank Garcia

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It’s a feeling of safety when someone is there to greet you, there are not many buildings in this neighborhood where you have the ability to drive into a garage that has a lower lobby, drop off your car and never be seen.

Mitchell Wasser

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.

Thomas Dekker

added by anonymous
6 years ago

In a special way I wish to greet the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped below ground for seventy days, i think one of them could share with us what the meaning of hope really is. Thank you for having hope in God.

Pope Francis on Wednesday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At first when people here saw our government identity cards it was hard for them to greet us, the state was seen more as an enemy than an ally. It was seen as repressive, its only presence was the police who went in with guns.

Joaquin Humberto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard, if you must interview a student before you greet the student, that’s not acceptance – that’s just absurd.

Republican State Sen. Mae Beavers

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Good morning, American pilots. We are here to greet you on your Fourth of July Independence Day.

Two Russian bombers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The athletes are probably feeling homesick, stressed, regardless of whether you won or lost, what language you speak or what country you are from, the dogs will love you and greet you the same way.

Margo Mackay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While the GOP may want to spin a good yarn on this, let's not get tied up in knots, we wanted to accommodate the press, allow her to greet voters, and allow the press to be right there in the parade with her as opposed to preset locations. And that's what we did.

Nick Merrill

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Comrades and fellow South Africans, I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

President Mandela

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

All Ukrainians will be able to greet the New Year with light. There will be no outages in the near future.

Volodymyr Demchyshyn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

She was tearing up and she asked for tissues before she went in [to greet her husband] and she needed them.

Chris Van Hollen

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

Edward Hoagland

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I greet you and I read now from beets. There are white and red beets. Beets are different as roses, roses can not eat. Grancy Baroness has a toothache.

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.

Henry David Thoreau

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I greet you as the shapers of American society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

P. J. O'Rourke

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

William H Gass

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

Hazel Henderson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

For this is Wisdom to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go

Laurence Hope

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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