Examples of gleeful in a Sentence
the gleeful atmosphere that envelops the host city of the Super Bowl
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The gleeful mayhem has been well mounted by Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto, whose work in genre pictures over the past decade or so has gained him a following among the action cognoscenti.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Dracula exhibits a gleeful, chaotic vulgarity, yet Jude’s sideways vampire history concludes on a note of reconciliation and hope.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
The first breach was awful: humiliating for the women who had to see their images passed around, and grim given the number of men making fun of those images with such open, gleeful cruelty.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 30 July 2025
Despite Hopper's gleeful overacting — and the last-minute script-doctoring efforts of Joss Whedon — genuine humor is nearly as scarce as dirt.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 July 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Dracula exhibits a gleeful, chaotic vulgarity, yet Jude’s sideways vampire history concludes on a note of reconciliation and hope.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
The first breach was awful: humiliating for the women who had to see their images passed around, and grim given the number of men making fun of those images with such open, gleeful cruelty.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 30 July 2025
Despite Hopper's gleeful overacting — and the last-minute script-doctoring efforts of Joss Whedon — genuine humor is nearly as scarce as dirt.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 July 2025
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“Gleeful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gleeful. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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