How to Use congratulation in a Sentence

congratulation

noun
  • I sent her a letter of congratulations.
  • Let me offer you my congratulations for being elected.
  • Please send her my congratulations.
  • Baez was then greeted in the dugout with as much head-shaking as congratulations.
    Billy Witz, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2016
  • Trump's message of congratulations appears to be tinged with sarcasm.
    Kurtis Lee, latimes.com, 26 Feb. 2017
  • Congratulations are in order for George and Amal Clooney!
    Tony Hicks, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Congratulations, your auto loan is preapproved—messages.
    Joanna Stern, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2017
  • The chancellor called him on Sunday evening to offer her congratulations and praise his pro-European campaign.
    Jonathan Stearns, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2017
  • Japan, which also has a tense relationship with China, offered its congratulations to Trump on Wednesday.
    Eryk Michael Smith, Fox News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Thank you very much, and congratulations to the Class of 2018.
    Katie Reilly, Time, 11 June 2018
  • But most of all congratulations and thank you to all our fans.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 10 May 2018
  • First of all, congratulations on all of that—what a feat!
    Rita Omokha, ELLE, 11 May 2023
  • Camp, the actor, has heard of the team’s success and hopes to pay a visit to the school to offer his congratulations.
    David Sharp, Fortune, 11 May 2023
  • But congratulations to team tj23, which moves into first place on the back of those Hunger Games points.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Congratulations to all the girls on achieving some of the highest awards given by the Girl Scouts.
    Melissa Whatley, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2017
  • Man, what a great, great run, and congratulations to UConn.
    Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Her clients around the world have called and written notes of congratulations.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2018
  • After the show, Streep and Short joined the cast to offer their congratulations.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2024
  • If this was your guess from the start, congratulations!
    Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Best of luck, and congratulations on putting your health first.
    cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Joyous congratulations to you, your cast mates and the crew.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 26 Feb. 2023
  • And a huge congratulations to @_xochitl.gomez and @valentin you guys are amazing!!!
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
  • First of all, congratulations to you, you and your team for 70 great years of journalism.
    NBC News, 5 Nov. 2017
  • But that night, awash in the smell of smoke, the scientists shook hands and exchanged congratulations.
    Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • First off, like to say, congratulations to the Oregon Ducks.
    James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Thank you for the suggestion, Caleb, and congratulations to Sara and Greg!
    Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 28 June 2024
  • On the one hand, there’s the dinner for the people in the room, the stuff of self-congratulation and ceremonial pomp.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2018
  • First off, congratulations on a big night at the Golden Globes.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
  • First of all, congratulations on getting this guy out of your life.
    Charlotte Cowles, The Cut, 7 June 2018
  • Hello, and thank you for inviting me to speak today, and congratulations to all of this year’s graduates.
    Jenny Slate, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024

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