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How to use the word ungrateful in a Sentence?

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Rep. Omar is ungrateful to the United States and the opportunities that have been afforded to her, anyone that holds contempt for America ought not serve this great nation as a member of Congress.

– Tommy Hanes

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Its good theyve thrown him out, hes ungrateful and arrogant. You cant bite the hand that has fed you all these years.

– Manuel Benavides

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We all know there's a somewhat dark place in our history when men and women returned from Vietnam. They returned to an ungrateful nation. And I think John Canley will say this award is so important because the Marines I served with are so deserving of this recognition, this will go down in the history books and hopefully correct a piece of that.

– Julia Brownley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I see the impossible work being done by of my friends at the federal agencies, the Pentagon, NATO, Five Eyes and the intelligence community. They are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful and with a fraction of the budgets required to render a viable defense.

– James Scott

added by williamson
6 years ago

If you have the same capacities and you are doing the same job, it is criminal not to pay the same salary. you were considered ungrateful, you were considered entitled, so I think it's amazing that women now are saying 'we're going to talk about this. This isn't fair,'.

– Gwyneth Paltrow

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So how can you possibly be ungrateful in my situation? How can you possibly take this for granted? since the time he was [diagnosed], he’s been enthusiastic, and happy, and I’m not kidding.

– Shari Smith

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

An ungrateful life is a wasted life

– Manoj Saxena

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

– Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

– Kahlil Gibron

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

– The Metro Para pledge

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

– Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

– Phyllis Mcginley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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