Greeting
"Greeting" in a Sentence (12 examples)
I bow to the boss in greeting, and he returns my bow with a nod.
Gentlemen, allow me to say a few words in greeting.
The word that is known to anyone is a greeting.
He doesn't know even the proper way of greeting people.
They exchanged the New Year's greeting.
She inclined her head in greeting.
It was just a simple greeting, but somehow I got strangely tense.
I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
They gave us a warm greeting.
Thank you for greeting me.
It's polite to begin a letter with a greeting, but this practice is less common in email.
I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.