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Example sentences for "good humor"

  • Distinguished by good humor and good breeding.

  • He was always in a good humor; no one had ever seen Hugo angry, embarrassed, or frightened.

  • If I did not accept the situation with a good humor, mine would be the loss--and so on.

  • Everybody seemed in a good humor--that is, everybody but the mayor.

  • They endeavor, therefore, to keep him in good humor by frequent offerings.

  • It was necessary, also, to keep the recruits in good humor, seeing the novelty and danger of the service into which they were entering, and the ease with which they might at anytime escape it by jumping into a canoe and going downstream.

  • A crew of saints cabined in those little caravels and tossed about on that coast for six weeks would scarcely keep in good humor.

  • Mr. King, who was put in good humor by falling on his feet, as it were, in such agreeable company, amused himself by studying the guests as they entered.

  • I hope we may find him in a good humor,' remarked the Field-cricket.

  • We should be delighted to hear you," said the crafty Cricket, desirous of keeping the Wasp in a good humor.

  • He went away in good humor, and we were always warm friends.

  • He was always in good humor, which is a fine quality for a man to have in a hunting camp.

  • When he was in good humor a livelier fellow could not be found, but the moment he got a grouch he clouded up like a Panhandle thunderstorm.

  • Mazie tried to coax him into a good humor.

  • The camp-fire made things look more cheerful, and a hearty meal did much toward restoring good humor.

  • Ham Spink and his cronies were indeed leaving, and in far from a good humor.

  • Shep was right; it was indeed wildcat that had come to pay him a visit, and the beast seemed to be in anything but a good humor as it glared down upon the imprisoned young hunter.

  • But a glance from Sans-Cravate made him change his tone on the instant, and he added, with an affectation of good humor: "But why does he throw my cards on the ground?

  • Try to make my wife enjoy herself; that isn't very easy, for she's not always in good humor.

  • Then, too, he has done well in Wall Street, and that has put him in a good humor.

  • He said nothing about his luck to his family, but let them attribute his unprecedented good humor to the news he brought and announced at dinner.

  • Good humor, flowing spirits, a sprightly wit, are essentials of good discourse.

  • Good humor, gay spirits are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy.

  • Nor were the young gentlemen, though extremely modest, at all melancholy, or less gay and in good humor.

  • The Japanese are not in a good humor about it.

  • The charm of the fête which surrounded him having put him in good humor, he said, "Let us go and offer this goblet of wine to the unfortunate man, whoever he may be.

  • His creator treats him with unfailing good humor and "the consciousness of a kindred folly.

  • But this time I got the old man over to luncheon with me--we were old friends, you know--and I jollied him up until he was in a good humor.

  • I had to smooth down my customer to sixty day terms and yet keep him in a good humor.

  • I would rather go out making business on Saturday than any other day because the merchant is doing business and is in a good humor, and you can get right at the point.

  • The jolly Begum looked the picture of good humor as she reclined on her splendid cushions; the lovely Sylphide smiled with languid elegance.

  • If he is put into a good humor at the notion of attending a baronet in the country, what influence won't a countess have on him?

  • But she did not wait for her éclair, and went back to the office in anything but a good humor.

  • Stuyvesant was in a good humor, Mrs. Stuyvesant pleasantly negative as usual, and Frances radiant.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good humor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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