Congratulating and celebrating
We use different expressions for celebrations: …

Examples of congratulated

congratulated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The editors are to be congratulated for having succeeded in bringing together what are ostensibly ten very different studies into a well-integrated, coherent whole.
The authors and publishers are to be congratulated on reproducing and updating this fine volume.
As a whole, the editors as well as the contributors are to be warmly congratulated.
Pyle is to be congratulated for producing a book that is historically sensitive yet philosophically forthright.
The editors are to be congratulated on assembling an outstanding collection of contributions and contributors.
The authors are to be congratulated for their structural analysis and comparison of several widely varying models of eye-movement control during reading.
This is a pity because in detail the tasks are excellent and realistic and the authors are to be congratulated on their fertility.
The editors and authors are to be congratulated on the broad range of papers presented here and on the clarity of presentation.
The editors are to be congratulated on their vision and ability to draw together such disparate ideas, themes, and professionals in one coherent volume.
The editors have done well to bring together so many respectable authors in this increasingly disparate field and for this they should be congratulated.
The editors are to be congratulated for their imagination in designing this project and for their energy in carrying it to completion.
At the end of the performance he congratulated everyone and left.
The editor is to be congratulated for providing such a tightly integrated resource.
The authors should be congratulated for providing not just a valediction, but more, an informative, refreshing and stimulating tribute.
Overall the editors must be congratulated for presenting a book of such high standard and attention to detail.
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