1
: exultant high-spirited joy : merriment
dancing with glee
2
: a part-song for usually male voices
Examples of glee in a Sentence
They were dancing with glee.
He could hardly contain his glee over his victory.
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
There was a kind of trickster’s glee in his expression.
—Darcy Ballantyne
july 16, Literary Hub, 16 July 2025
The yearning in both of these stories is enough to make soft hearts kick their blankets in glee, and the reunions make the waiting more than worth it.
—Leesa Cross-Smith, People.com, 21 June 2025
Unwittingly proving the point, Yankovic gasps in glee as our lunch ends.
—Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 9 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for glee
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“Glee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glee. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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glee
noun1
: high-spirited joy
2
: an unaccompanied song for three or more voices
gleeful
adjective
-fəl
gleefully
adverb
-fə-lē
gleefulness
noun
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