GREET in a Sentence

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For GREET, below is one of 241 sentences:
Levin had seen him already at the meeting on the previous day, and he had studiously avoided him, not caring to greet him.

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 Meanings and Examples of GREET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
greet
 v.  be perceived by
 v.  express greetings upon meeting someone
Classic Sentence: (196 in 14 pages)
1  Some of us can hardly expect, perhaps, in the natural course of things, to greet you on your return.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
2  "Good morning," he said, smiling to the boy, who had come up to greet him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
3  A little man in spectacles, with a narrow forehead, tore himself from the discussion for an instant to greet Levin, and then went on talking without paying any further attention to him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
4  Vronsky bowed to her and stopped to greet Stremov.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 33
5  Everyone got up to greet Darya Alexandrovna.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 14
6  On reaching the carriage she jumped off without assistance, and holding up her riding habit, she ran up to greet Dolly.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 17
7  Levin had seen him already at the meeting on the previous day, and he had studiously avoided him, not caring to greet him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 29
8  The only thing to greet the eye was the logs of which the huts were constructed.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
9  Yes, in spite of the responsibility of the Inferior Land Court, the speaker cast all thoughts of it to the winds as he hurried to greet our hero.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
10  While the britchka remained thus halted Selifan and Petrushka, their caps doffed, sat watching the progress of the cortege, after they had received strict instructions not to greet any fellow-servant whom they might recognise.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
11  Ferfitchkin did not greet me in any way as he went out, Trudolyubov barely nodded.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
12  Not noticing the monk, who had risen to greet her and was drawing back the wide sleeve on his right arm, she went up to Sonya and took her hand.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII
13  Any guard might arrest him, but by strange chance no one does so and all rapturously greet the man they cursed the day before and will curse again a month later.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
14  She paused in the hall to speak to friends and to greet India who was emerging from the back of the house, her hair untidy and tiny beads of perspiration on her forehead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Just a little cold which had settled in his chest, he said, trying to rise to greet her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
16  When he approached the dais, he was greeted by cheers from the people who had come to honor him.
17  In almost every village, we were greeted enthusiastically from the locals along the side of the road.
18  A shout of laughter greeted his entrance; noisy at first, and terminating in Grace Poole's own goblin ha! ha!
19  Every joke the comedian made was greeted by a salvo of laughter from the audience.
20  She greeted us with a smile.
21  The news has been greeted with dismay by local business leaders.
22  She breezed in at eleven and greeted everyone with a smile.
23  The goal was greeted by jubilation from the home fans.
24  Children waving flags greeted the Russian leader.
25  The news was greeted with considerable popular acclamation.
26  While the train was passing, a roaring sound greeted our ears.
27  The Prime Minister's speech was greeted with boos and jeers.
28  The statement was greeted with bitter disappointment by many of the other delegates.
29  A welcoming committee greets newcomers to the Parkside neighborhood.
30  A Christmas greeting and good wishes to you who is thought about all the year through.