How to Use greeting in a Sentence

greeting

noun
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  • He addressed the members of the delegation with a formal greeting.
  • Both you who are here and all of you who have sent greetings and gifts.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary’s greetings sell for $1,500.
    — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The two shared a hug and the bise greeting and posed for photos together.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Hang it by the front door to jot down and little reminders or greetings.
    — Brittney Morgan, housebeautiful.com, 5 May 2023
  • The country star was walking through the MVP Arena to get to the stage and offered greetings and high-fives to the crowd.
    — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 1 June 2023
  • But if a few flocks pass over without so much as a look, hit them with a greeting call.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Use a paint pen to write a friendly greeting on one of the larger pumpkins.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2023
  • No, the city won’t start rolling up the red carpet or stop rolling out friendly greetings.
    — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Smile and exchange a friendly greeting with the people at the tables next to you.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Trump either greeting or arm wrestling a dog-sized frog.
    — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022
  • She was confused by these words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
    — Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Offering him a greeting kiss, Magoo is stabbed in the neck.
    — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 4 July 2023
  • Learn to make greeting cards for your friends out of Styrofoam.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Touched by the warm greeting, John told the bartender to put the entire afternoon’s tab on his check.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Make their greeting more festive by adding a few cozy touches to your front porch.
    — Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 3 Oct. 2022
  • And second, in so doing, the performance opens the door to a new kind of phatic greeting.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Carved on the wooden bench is the old, rude, familiar greeting.
    — Joy Williams, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
  • There have been times in Gallagher’s history when the kitchen dropped the ball, the waiters trudged through the motions and the greeting at the door could be dour.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Even before a greeting and the drink order, your server lifts the grate on your table grill and turns a knob.
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • The two would exchange small greetings, but nothing more.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 15 July 2024
  • As always, founder Alan Sprints was in the brewpub greeting customers, who turned out to get a last tap pour of beer straight from the source.
    — oregonlive, 27 June 2022
  • On the Uzbek side, women met the soldiers with the traditional greeting of bread and salt.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • It’s been El Cholo’s after-hours greeting for about a year now.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • The man smiled brightly in greeting, but showed no sign of recognition.
    — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Gibson Greeting Cards put Cincinnati on the map as the first city to publish greeting cards in 1850.
    — Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The greeting cards in the Naomi Watts Menopause Collection are quite funny.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Yang stopped outside one of the structures, calling a greeting.
    — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
  • My dad went to visit the families of all of our Peruvian friends in France to film their homes, greetings from their families.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Here's what to know about Yom Kippur, including how it is celebrated, traditions around the holiday and common greetings.
    — Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024

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