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Example sentences for "thanksgiving"

Lexicographically close words:
thankings; thankit; thankless; thanklessness; thanks; thanksgivings; thankt; thankyng; thann; thanne
  1. Last Thanksgiving she had never seen John; and indeed, it was not till long after Decoration Day that she had first heard his name; and now there was a plain gold ring on her finger, and John and she were man and wife.

  2. I wish I could get away for a week at Thanksgiving to run up and see you.

  3. All the same I'd like to be with you this Thanksgiving, even if it isn't as beautiful a day as last Thanksgiving was.

  4. The queen was beaten at Northampton; wondering King Henry was taken prisoner, and a few days later placidly attended with his captors a service of thanksgiving for his wife’s defeat and his deliverance from his friends.

  5. This is an extension of the custom long prevailing in several States in which an annual Thanksgiving day has been appointed by proclamation of the governor.

  6. Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration.

  7. In the United States it is now customary for the President by proclamation to appoint annually a day (usually the last Thursday in November) of thanksgiving and praise to God for the mercies of the past year.

  8. The Thanksgiving recess was to last only from Wednesday afternoon till the following Monday morning.

  9. Milton young folks were out in full force on this Thanksgiving morning, despite the keen wind blowing from the northwest.

  10. Ruth had shopping to do and must confer with Mr. Howbridge about a Thanksgiving treat for the Meadow Street tenants.

  11. Ruth, after the fire, when the prophet had been made to understand that all his possessions for which he really cared were saved, had induced him to come home with them to eat the Thanksgiving feast.

  12. Mr. Howbridge's own automobile had taken around the Thanksgiving baskets and the lawyer's clerk delivered them and made a brief speech at each presentation.

  13. Thanksgiving Day is drawing nearer and nearer, and how little I am able to do for a single creature, to prove to God that I am grateful for my existence!

  14. You'd make a sweet rosy jelly to eat with turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, you dear, comforting little boy!

  15. There'll be a great crowd out that day and at Thanksgiving service the next Thursday too!

  16. I remembered how soon it will be Thanksgiving Day, and I'll so like to make it happier for you and a few others that I love.

  17. I did manage it, indeed; but the world shall hear what sort of a psalm of thanksgiving and vote of thanks I was treated to for my pains.

  18. III The Thanksgiving was a very splendid affair; but the people who liked it least were the piebald ponies.

  19. When his thanksgiving had come to an end he rose; the people rose also, and all went out of church together.

  20. Then Morton Denville softly bent his knee by his sister's side, and to Richard Linnell the silence seemed that of some grand cathedral where a prayer of thanksgiving was being offered up to God.

  21. At noon a thanksgiving service was held in the Minster.

  22. I say it is to shudder a thanksgiving that you are not in the marriage list, and to try, for the hundredth time, to solve the riddle: how can each paper that passes through your hands be "the best and cheapest periodical in the known world?

  23. Can anybody tell why the front door and windows are never opened, save on Fourth of July and at Thanksgiving time?

  24. I uttered a heartfelt thanksgiving when dinner was over.

  25. On Thanksgiving day we ate dinner at the Presbyterian Mission, and during our travels through China met a number of ministers, physicians and teachers.

  26. Even near the southern boundary, the weather was quite wintry before Thanksgiving Day of last year.

  27. Is it because you are so fond of sermons or dinners that Thanksgiving glorifies the dreary month of November?

  28. As soon as the latter was gone, she kneeled before her Maker, and poured out her soul in grateful thanksgiving for her deliverance; and, in particular, for such a manifest interference of some superior intelligence in her behalf.

  29. Him, and amongst themselves, whatsoever be the condition of the people of God, whether in sorrow and humiliation before deliverance, or in rejoicing and thanksgiving after deliverance.

  30. Our song of thanksgiving should be in our mouths, "God is good, and His mercy endureth forever.

  31. The magistrats adjourning and dissolving of assemblies, and not allowing them time to consider and exped their affairs: their appointing them dyets and causes of Fasts, particularly that in January 14: and the Thanksgiving Aug.

  32. We were treated today by our kind warden to a good Thanksgiving dinner and I pray before another Thanksgiving Day that I may have the pleasure of seeing you under more favorable circumstances.

  33. My heart goes out in gratitude and thanksgiving while I write, for all He has done for me.

  34. Today is Thanksgiving Day, and to us poor unfortunates I can assure you it is a gloomy one, but we must give thanks to our Heavenly Father that we are not in a worse place than this.

  35. I raised my heart in thanksgiving to God, knowing that He who stopped the lion's mouth and held the flames of the fiery furnace had in some way kept this ugly creature from doing me any harm and saved my life.

  36. My Dear Sister in Christ: Yours was received with welcome and thanksgiving to our Lord that comforts us through His Holy Spirit.

  37. Besides songs of thanksgiving and holy hymns which flowed from the lips of the Levites, probably written for use in the Temple, half-secular songs were dedicated in love and praise to King Hezekiah.

  38. Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

  39. Isaias Chapter 25 A canticle of thanksgiving for God's judgments and benefits.

  40. Isaias Chapter 12 A canticle of thanksgiving for the benefits of Christ.

  41. If you immolate a victim for thanksgiving to the Lord, that he may be favourable, 22:30.

  42. That being enriched in all things, you may abound unto all simplicity which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.

  43. A thanksgiving to God for his benefits to his people Israel.

  44. It finishes with her canticle of thanksgiving to God.

  45. The other sacrifices in the Old Testament were either offerings for sin, or peace offerings: and these latter again were either offered in thanksgiving for blessings received; or by way of prayer for new favours or graces.

  46. Kings Chapter 22 King David's psalm of thanksgiving for his deliverance from all his enemies.

  47. By way of thanksgiving for all benefits received from him.

  48. For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

  49. When arranged, the pictures were found to be of Thanksgiving flavor.

  50. This Thanksgiving Brownie brings a message so gay, To visit our house on Thanksgiving Day, To help celebrate with all kinds of good cheer The 'feast of the harvest' at the end of the year.

  51. She served everything on paper plates and used paper napkins, decorated with Thanksgiving designs.

  52. In the midst of army life we are, indeed, in death, and the thanksgiving of loving ones about the fireside for mercies thus far shown, is mingled ever with the dread of what the morrow may unfold.

  53. A man of austere mold was the new major,--one of the old Covenanter type, who would march to battle shouting hymn tunes, and to Christmas and Thanksgiving chanting doleful lays.

  54. There had been Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Ray, an Amazonian feast since all their lords were still away on service, and Sandy Ray and Billy, Jr.

  55. This gave her the deepest pang, for she would rather have heard him offer one thanksgiving to the Being to whom all thanks are due, than find herself the object of his praise and gratitude.

  56. But David is no mere formalist; the psalm of thanksgiving for the return of the Ark to Jerusalem is a worthy tribute to the power and faithfulness of Jehovah.

  57. The prayer is a thanksgiving for the assurance David had received that the accomplishment of the great purpose of his life, the erection of a temple to Jehovah, was virtually secured.

  58. Each man might enjoy for himself the renewed privilege of access to Jehovah, and obtain the assurance of pardon for his sins, and offer thanksgiving for his own special blessings.

  59. David offers prayer and thanksgiving to the Lord: "And David said to all the congregation, Now bless Jehovah our God.

  60. But the most gracious and appropriate of these Davidic utterances is his last prayer and thanksgiving for the liberal gifts of the people for the Temple.

  61. Poor, Poor Nellie The Thanksgiving Party And Its Consequences Chapter I.

  62. She sang more and talked less in the two weeks that followed our Thanksgiving celebration than ever before since I had known her.

  63. So on the day we were to celebrate Thanksgiving and Jane's happiness, and Zura had declared her intention of decorating every spot in the house, I was not surprised to hear coming from the garden sounds of an overheated argument.

  64. I sent the invitation for the Thanksgiving celebration, and was much relieved by the answer that Mr. Hanaford would join us that evening.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thanksgiving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.