How to Use greeting in a Sentence

greeting

noun

• 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
• One of them was marked with Chip’s name and a greeting for his special day, Nov. 5.
  — Fox News, 27 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Getting more greeting cards into the mail would help the USPS.
  — WSJ, 3 May 2021
• 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
• Monday’s greeting will likely serve as the first of many.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 Jan. 2025
• 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
• After a warm greeting at the net, after 4 hours 57 minutes, Djokovic knelt down, picked and ate some of the grass.
  — Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 28 June 2021
• Alex: These kinds of greetings will happen dozens of times while talking to JJ.
  — Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2024
• She was confused by these words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
  — Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 21 Dec. 2022
• But like each time before, the phone rang, the generic voice greeting kicked in and Navarro would hang up.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Nina looked out over the room at the others gathered, who had turned at her greeting.
  — Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Say goodbye to those New Year greetings and memes, because February is almost here.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Feb 2025