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Sentence Examples I feel like I have pulled one over on myself when I wasn't looking and I am gleeful. I felt like a gleeful kid after a particularly lucrative Halloween expedition, and enacted the self-same rituals. We collapsed with gleeful guffaws thinking it was our secret discovery and no way would our teacher know what we were on about. You can almost hear, watching their avidly gleeful faces, the exhortations of the stage manager to look more joyful. It's all there in plain sight, which is why the reporters are having such an easy, gleeful time digging it up. The joyous screams, the gleeful yelps, and a happy, wagging tail added life to the peaceful, gentle beach. Nice to see the newspaper's subs parading their gleeful ignorance of elementary meteorology, just in case any of us remained in doubt. Granted, the novel isn't gleeful, but there's enough levity to entertain the idea of lasting love. It's daughter Caroline's third birthday and a proud and happy little girl turns church-going into a gleeful romp. It was a condemnation of the Thatcherite 80s, but the satire was so gleeful and the comedy so sharp that the morality began to slip. His bizarre word rhythm and gleeful disregard for punctuation makes even his most banal utterances sound dramatic. With a gleeful smile, she began to play absent-mindedly with a strand of her mouse brown hair that had strayed free of its bun. The idea was that the perennially gleeful blond would travel to Scotland to source scallops and langoustines. Yesterday she launched a blistering attack on the gleeful liberals who have delighted in her husband's troubles. He then gave me a maliciously gleeful look and walked over to the wall again. My low, glum eyebrow position immediately exploded into a gigantic gleeful gloat! But it was hard to forget when every eddy of wind out of the east brought the smell of mud and the gleeful chuckles of the river. Even the enthusiastic and gleeful performances can't compensate for the utter lameness of it all. A gleeful, childlike look overcame her face and she bounded off towards the vending machine. The result is an intricate, gleeful conversation between eras, ideas and characters. Show More Sentences Arriving and departing for the wedding the bride and groom looked gleeful in their horse drawn chariot with driver in full regale. With a penetrable fourth wall, a spot of audience participation and plenty of gleeful nonsense, this is pantomime in all but dame. One of the delights of his squibs is the gleeful elision of NewLab multi-culti PC-speak with management gobbledegook and Pentagonese. Our curiosity was aroused by the gleeful squeals and ripples of bawdy laughter emanating from the crowd. The impression endures up to the moment that the hyperkinetic breaks kick in and roll forth with gleeful abandon. A tank is walking up the High Street of Flers with the British Army cheering behind,' reported one gleeful observer. Critics discovered in Dracula an almost endless source for readings on Freudianism, Marxism and feminism, the depths of which they plumed with gleeful abandon. Other displays mix genres and media with almost gleeful abandon. She would spend hours in gleeful delight finding out new things. Very gleeful when I think of it having to walk through all that dust! They were ambling joyfully, jumping, excited by the huge gleeful crowd. You've run with the pack in a gleeful stomp right on top of him. Now we have some professionally gleeful all-purpose presenter. Making all that happen is a savvy script that sticks to the truth only when it needs to and an actress who gives a gleeful, ripsnorter of a performance. Sometimes she trades elegance for restlessness, jump-cutting wildly between gleeful choruses and mumbly rapping and insinuative verses. But she takes charge of the ballet blithely, and there's a marvelously gleeful authority with which she enounces many steps. The gleeful lobbyists portray the issue as a choice between voluntary and involuntary taxes. He hunted deer in the pelting rain, got tangled up in a cactus, and then shot his buffalo and, in gleeful celebration, performed an Indian war dance over the carcass. From grizzled graybeards to gleeful schoolboys, everyone had an eye on the one other woman in the room. The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a gleeful yet gruesome comedy, that satirizes political terrorism in rural Ireland. Show More Sentences He was the thorn in everyone's side, the gleeful imp who was just there to cause trouble. The episode was symbolic of the gleeful naughtiness which characterises Britain's approach to booze. Britain has a drink problem. A giddy, gleeful Tinker Bell stole the show every time she appeared, completely enchanting not only Peter but the entire audience. Judging by all the phone calls, British Columbians are already rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipation of helping us do that. Barefoot children run in gleeful innocence For fish that flap a beckoning on bared sand. Their roaring, hollow sound spread across the plain, joining the gleeful notes of the bagpipes. He turned, ignoring the gleeful smiles and whoops of the boys as they raced down the stair, released from schooling for the day. Summarizing the plot, a gleeful morass of B-movie humour involving an evil sibling, a bionic bigfoot and radioactive pearls, is not only difficult, but also useless. By keeping wages close to subsistence level, the Arkansas-based retailer offers low prices that draw herds of gleeful shoppers away from the competition. They are the ones known intimately by cartoon cognoscenti, often memorized line-for-line and take-for-take, recited in unison by gleeful aficionados. I was especially gleeful because she was my primary school best friend. Everyone has fallen into the predictable roles of condemner, defender, and gleeful onlooker. So what if money-making teens in Malaysia say a gleeful ker-ching! Told that this campaign ad is probably the greatest ever, Quast was gleeful. The gleeful, violent overturning of pieties-including the pieties of race and nation-in the name of modernity is precisely what Vorticism announces itself to be about. It is as if an old man were to play out a joke on those younger who have yet to understand that secret wisdom which gives him a gleeful omnipotence over their actions. How gleeful, internally that is, were we to post about the new cleanly chic Parisian coffee shop we discovered a few days ago on 2nd Avenue in the East Village. Ana could imagine watching this on TV at home, and how exciting it must be. How gleeful the audience would be, watching Downs cut them to pieces. The gleeful Proprietor of this elevated Valhalla is waiter, busboy, counselor, philosopher and magician. I have heard the Minister of Human Resources stand in this House, with sort of a gleeful look on her face, and say that the government was providing wonderful service to people, but that is completely untrue. Show More Sentences Projected in shadow, on the bottom step of a staircase, Samuel Rousseau's video work entitled P'tit bonhomme never fails to hold the gleeful attention of the viewer. So it's with a gleeful smile that I welcomed the results of the academic study of the phenomenon published by Professor Jim Jansen and his team at Penn State University. By mid-August, though, farmers were gleeful. Though British Conservatives are less gleeful about the euro crisis than they were a year ago, a sense of vindication informs talk of European irrelevance. That threatens their sense of perspective. It's partially due to a certain gleeful charm and a sense that Baker is having fun, and partially because the 39-year-old Australian is good-looking in a square-jawed, blond beefcake kind of way. The gleeful grisliness makes for some funny moments, and there's a nicely spooky Halloween atmosphere, due to the location shooting and the ever-present smoke machine. Each failed test of components or of complete systems is met with gleeful funeral orations by BMD opponents, and every success is greeted by proponents as proof that the shield can and will work. The Sirens, gleeful scourge of mariners, beguiling bane and cruelhearted joy, whom no man could abandon once he'd heard them, were left, they say, through sly Ulysses' ploy. Examples from Classical Literature What a gleeful uproar the robins, cedar-birds, high-holes, and cow blackbirds make amid the black cherry trees as we pass along! For the enjoyment of aristophanic fun a sort of Southern childishness and swiftness of gleeful apprehension is required. Loy Chuk and his fellow workers were gathered, tense and gleeful, around the things their digging had exposed to the daylight. In the dance she was the nimblest, in mirth the most gleeful, and in beauty peerless. From wondering sobriety Jewel's lips broke into a gleeful smile. No sooner had they bought the chops than they scurried away like two gleeful children to cook them. She gave a gleeful chuckle as she recognized a dear, familiar script. As he spoke his boyish face was wreathed in a gleeful smile, and his voice had an exultant ring. Before she could put him into the chair, he sprang out of her arms with a little gleeful cry, and alighted on his seat, like a bird alighting on its perch! And how was I to guess that the story of how the Queen had thrown him down on his own boat, the moment I hove in sight, was already the gleeful gossip of the water-front? Enthroned upon his monstrous steed, and solemnly proceeding up and down the wide, steep field, he looked the very incarnation of quiet, gleeful satisfaction and delight. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of gleeful? Words that rhyme with gleeful What is the adverb for gleeful? What is the adjective for gleeful? What is the noun for gleeful? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words gleed Glee glee Gledhill glede glebe gleefully gleefulness gleek gleeman gleemen gleen 7-letter Words Starting With g gl gle glee gleef gleefu