approbatory

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

So she gave Mr. Money a good deal of information, which he received with an approbatory "Yes, yes" or an inquiring "So, so" every now and then.

From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various

Chloe went through the same process; they looked significantly at each other, nodded, set the pitchers on the slab, and gave a little approbatory cough.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

Perhaps something of this kind is to be found in the approbatory response, from which the French are said to have made up the word Iroquois.

From An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem by Hosmer, William H. C. (William Howe Cuyler)

Amazement, approbatory or the reverse, at this spectacle is the beginning of surprises which the spectral visitor would find in store.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

The Duc muttered a slight oath, decidedly approbatory.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan