Examples of gleeful in a Sentence
the gleeful atmosphere that envelops the host city of the Super Bowl
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The resulting image depicts a loose choreography—several children hold their ringed arms in front of them, fingertips touching—but the over-all impression is one of gleeful, expressive chaos.
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Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
The meme features a picture of Wyatt looking gleeful with her hands over her mouth.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
The film’s whimsical marketing campaign has focused on Tatum’s gleeful roller-skating and dancing in that bastion of ’90s consumerism, but Roofman itself is a slippier thing.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, the commentariat at large has taken them as license to indulge in unchecked, gleeful misogyny.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2025
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Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
The meme features a picture of Wyatt looking gleeful with her hands over her mouth.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
The film’s whimsical marketing campaign has focused on Tatum’s gleeful roller-skating and dancing in that bastion of ’90s consumerism, but Roofman itself is a slippier thing.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, the commentariat at large has taken them as license to indulge in unchecked, gleeful misogyny.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Gleeful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gleeful. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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