Examples of gleeful in a Sentence
the gleeful atmosphere that envelops the host city of the Super Bowl
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The post was a joke, and perhaps an effective one, maximizing the distance between Studio Ghibli’s tender, bittersweet, profoundly human ethos and the gleeful, dehumanizing viciousness that is Trump’s stock-in-trade.
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Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
Brant, Willem and Bonnie are all adults now and Idol is a gleeful grandfather of four, aged 2 to 5.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
Dina seems positively gleeful to play the provocatrice.
—Robert Ito, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Most congressional Republicans have become gleeful spectators as the wrecking crew of Trump and Elon Musk has taken a chainsaw to our government.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2025
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Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
Brant, Willem and Bonnie are all adults now and Idol is a gleeful grandfather of four, aged 2 to 5.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
Dina seems positively gleeful to play the provocatrice.
—Robert Ito, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Most congressional Republicans have become gleeful spectators as the wrecking crew of Trump and Elon Musk has taken a chainsaw to our government.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Gleeful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gleeful. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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