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Example sentences for "glee"

Lexicographically close words:
gleba; glebe; glebes; gled; glede; gleeful; gleefully; gleek; gleeman; gleemen
  1. Miss Merrivale laughed, with more glee than comprehension.

  2. Ethel laughed merrily, her glee arising chiefly from a sense of the chance he was giving her to work up one of those playful mock quarrels which amused her and so thoroughly teased her admirer.

  3. He congratulated himself on his cleverness in having inspired so much confidence and thought with glee of his triumph when he returned with the full story to the Lady Trustees.

  4. A Maori will be laughing and talking in the greatest glee and high spirits, when he is suddenly accosted by a friend of his whom he may not have seen for some time.

  5. Shipload after shipload went to America, and the Irish speculators were in high glee as the demand for it increased; although such a quantity had been shipped as would have sufficed to have whitewashed the entire two continents.

  6. Glee there was, yet, too, something else in the dark eyes laughing at her, something unconsciously warm and caressing.

  7. It put me in great glee that our landlord was an Englishman.

  8. For myself, though but a lowlander, having picked up a few words of the language, I presumed to mingle in their mirth, and joined in the choruses with as much glee as any of the company.

  9. He was the mainstay of Banjo, Mandolin and Glee Clubs.

  10. Every girl had a beautiful doll, and every boy a gift that made him shout in glee or wrapped him in speechless joy, according to his nature.

  11. The Yates Glee Club journeyed over in the evening and gave an impromptu entertainment in the parlor, a courtesy well appreciated by the Harwell team, whose nerves were now beginning to make themselves felt.

  12. In high glee at this happy chance, less from vanity than policy I made M.

  13. Who was it who rubbed his hands in glee during this monologue?

  14. Miss Nell and Bob thereupon set to work in high glee at their extempore ablutions; and, when they had subsequently dried their faces in their pocket-handkerchiefs, both presented a much improved appearance.

  15. Once as I told in glee Tales of the stormy sea, Soft eyes did gaze on me, Burning yet tender; And as the white stars shine On the dark Norway pine, On that dark heart of mine Fell their soft splendor.

  16. On returning to my lodge, I found Washtella in great glee over my good luck, and she explained that it was no small matter to have killed the first buffalo slain in the hunt.

  17. His delight in the situation has a mellowness far removed from the anxious, ambiguous glee of the urchin.

  18. The dishonest dignitary sat in his canoe at a distance, indicating by the glee and vigor of his pantomime that he enjoyed in a supreme degree the brilliant success of this mercantile fraud.

  19. And his chubby face suddenly lighted while he plunged with glee into the scented water.

  20. Terrible glee burned in his eyes; and to many indeed, at that moment, the recreant prince appeared dreadful as Satan, his brother.

  21. Jack then took it up, though it gave him a pinch or two ere he found out how to hold it, and ran off in high glee to show what he had caught.

  22. The boys were of course in high glee at all this, but I did not share their joy so much as I could wish.

  23. Denny went to the company quarters in high glee and soon had his kit all packed.

  24. I chuckled with fiendish glee as I posted this on the bulletin board and then started for breakfast.

  25. I heard a low snort of glee from his room.

  26. What a sudden sort of glee the night he discovered Bernard Shaw!

  27. O'er the strife Shouted for glee Enyo, sister of War.

  28. But with loud laughter of glee the Argives sought Their galleys, chanting the triumphant might Of victory, chanting now the Blessed Gods, Now their own valour, and Epeius' work Ever renowned.

  29. Laughing for glee Thereover, swiftly flashed she forth the ring Of towers.

  30. Ofttimes with soul that laughed for glee I held Thee in mine arms; for mine heart whispered me `This fosterling through life shall care for thee, Staff of thine age shall be.

  31. Say, who that angel is, that with such glee Beholds our queen, and so enamour'd glows Of her high beauty, that all fire he seems.

  32. At their glee And carol, smil'd the Lovely One of heav'n, That joy was in the eyes of all the blest.

  33. Your brother was in high glee that to play our parts properly we were obliged to sleep together.

  34. He went away in high glee at such a windfall.

  35. Wedgwood is gone out cock-shooting, in high glee and spirits.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.