Examples of gleeful in a Sentence
the gleeful atmosphere that envelops the host city of the Super Bowl
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Kunstnernes Hus has a café, and that day it was filled with groups of hip-looking mothers and their gleeful toddlers; a few lone guys, in jeans and sneakers, tapped on laptops.
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Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
The names go on and on, a gleeful send-up of what was, at the time of its premiere in 1997, the peak of sophistication.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
The meme features a picture of Wyatt looking gleeful with her hands over her mouth.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 24 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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Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
The names go on and on, a gleeful send-up of what was, at the time of its premiere in 1997, the peak of sophistication.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
The meme features a picture of Wyatt looking gleeful with her hands over her mouth.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 24 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 11 Nov. 2025.
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