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Example sentences for "joyful"

Lexicographically close words:
joyance; joye; joyed; joyes; joyeux; joyfull; joyfullest; joyfully; joyfulness; joying
  1. The women were equally full of joyful business.

  2. He did not take a moment's counsel or consideration, but sprang to his feet with the joyful cry of a delighted boy.

  3. Mademoiselle Plouernel, clasping her hands tightly and raising her eyes moistened with joyful tears.

  4. Full of hope and joyful anticipation, Arthur telegraphed for his skates.

  5. He rested after his labours, after the joyful excitement of the last twenty-four hours.

  6. It will come to this, that marriages of consequence, and none but those, will be hailed with joyful peals.

  7. Bursting with laughter in his joyful pride, he called it a portrait of old Vernon in society.

  8. Nature was then sparkling refreshed in the last drops of a sweeping rain-curtain, favourably disposed for a background to her joyful optimism.

  9. A house having a great wine stored below lives in our imaginations as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

  10. I confess I don't attempt that, it seems to me just a joyful and neighbourly business, where one puts the mind in a certain expectant mood, and is lucky if one carries a single thrill or aspiration away.

  11. Anything so overpoweringly joyful and delicious and useless as all that must come out of a fulness of joy.

  12. It is so easy to overflow with cheap benevolence, but the first step towards the joyful wisdom is to be afraid of the emotion that costs you nothing: but we won't be metaphysical to-day!

  13. I never met anyone with such a power of linking the loose ends of life together, and of giving one so joyful a sense of connection and continuance.

  14. But there was no response given to her joyful welcome.

  15. Molly ran directly to her father with this joyful news.

  16. I can truly say, with a joyful heart, that the general and enthusiastic wonder and admiration of applauding throngs have not puffed up our Walter in a vain conceit of himself, but that he gives to God alone the glory!

  17. It was not, therefore, to a very prosperous or joyful city that Boccaccio returned from Naples; the words he put into the mouth of Fiammetta[317] were fully justified.

  18. Let us make a joyful festa, and intone a hymn of joy.

  19. After a short stay in San Francisco, Governor Stevens took the steamer for the Isthmus, and reached New York in May, and the next morning had a joyful reunion with his wife and little girls in Newport.

  20. It was a joyful reunion when he reached Newport, and enfolded his dearly loved wife and little ones in his arms.

  21. The joyful star that I adore, If placed in presence of the Sun, Would shine as brightly as before.

  22. More easy for the barren rocks Or for sand to send forth water, Than that I should cease to love The fair princess, the joyful star.

  23. The very thought of this Alaska garden is a joyful exhilaration.

  24. While we were passing along the east shore of the island we saw a light on the opposite shore, a joyful sight, which Toyatte took for a fire in the Indian village, and steered for it.

  25. The wind was fair and joyful in the morning, and away we glided to the famous glacier.

  26. In the gardens and forests of this wonderful moraine one might spend a whole joyful life.

  27. If his voice lacked the joyful ring and his look the ardent delight of a successful lover, she failed to heed it.

  28. According to Hitzig and others, it is to leap for astonishment, while, according to Umbreit and others, it is for joyful admiration.

  29. All night long she sat watching at the bedroom-window, longing for the gleam of returning torches, and the joyful fanfare of the trumpet.

  30. With a joyful cry he fell upon his neck, exclaiming, "My brother!

  31. I never was so glad to see any one in all my life," she cried, with a joyful wave of her hand.

  32. A moment later she and Grace joined hands and performed a joyful dance about the room.

  33. Mabel made a joyful little rush toward him, holding his hand in both her own.

  34. There was the crackling sound of unfolding paper, then Grace cried out in joyful tones: "Anne, you never can guess!

  35. Do you know, I am anything but joyful at being a senior," announced Elfreda Briggs.

  36. As soon as he saw Æneas advancing toward him, he rose with hands stretched out and joyful tears pouring down his face.

  37. Nor was it joyful to me to receive Hercules when he came, nor Theseus and Pirithous, though they were descendants of the Gods and unconquerable in war.

  38. The Rutulians raised a joyful shout, but the dying Orodes faintly answered, "Not long shall thou rejoice with impunity over me; a similar fate awaits thyself, and soon shalt thou also be stretched lifeless on this same field.

  39. Midas started up, in a kind of joyful frenzy, and ran about the room, grasping at everything that happened to be in his way.

  40. But I had scarcely time to ask the question when she ran out to meet me, as eager and joyful as her sweet, affectionate nature could be.

  41. And then we set out in our joyful solemn procession, Alice going first that we might not lose sight of the young newcomer.

  42. And thither now, as to a site decreed, the virtue of that cord bears us on which directs to a joyful mark whatever it shoots.

  43. The beautiful image, which in its sweet fruition was making joyful the interwoven souls, appeared before me with outspread wings.

  44. But we have hitherto only turned our attention to the images of death; let us now accompany the more happy youth who sails out of the joyful Burschen world into Philisterium, on his progress.

  45. We have accompanied him from the time when he advanced from the school into the free atmosphere of the university, till that in which, turning his back on the joyful Burschen-world, he sailed forth into the Philisterium.

  46. He, with joyful spirits, and full of good resolves, proceeded to his new place of residence.

  47. With joyful look turned toward Thee, Eternal God, stands my Fatherland!

  48. And one who did not know their speech could yet have read in their reflected joy a magnitude of joyful happening, could guess that over two beings of the highest rank, the highest rank of happiness impended.

  49. And repentance is not terrible, just as truth is not terrible, and it is equally joyful and fruitful.

  50. This is by no means so joyful and delightful information as was that of Adam giving to his wife the name of Eve.

  51. As therefore the name Eve contained in it the joyful hope of life, even of eternal life; so these skins were a memorial of sin passed and sin to come; but a memorial also of all those calamities present and future, which that sin deserved.

  52. This punishment of the woman therefore, if we truly and rightly consider the whole matter, is in its holy reality a glad and joyful punishment.

  53. My lean comrade trilled occasionally as he went along--"Joyful and sorrowful, thoughts are free!

  54. When his servant entered the room again, he exclaimed, with a joyful voice.

  55. Sickness sometimes laid him aside, and taught him what he had to suffer; but he rose from it to go forth again to his joyful labors.

  56. But if they see us full of faith, and joyful in the Lord, with our souls filled with the glory which shall be, then they shrink abashed, and flee away in confusion.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "joyful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beaming; beatified; blessed; blissful; blithe; buxom; cheerful; cheering; cheery; convivial; dancing; delightful; ecstatic; elated; elevated; encouraging; exalted; exhilarating; exultant; festal; festive; frivolous; gala; gay; glad; gladsome; gleeful; glowing; golden; happy; heartening; hilarious; inspiring; invigorating; jocular; jolly; jovial; joyful; joyous; laughing; leaping; light; lighthearted; merry; merrymaking; mirthful; pleasant; purring; radiant; rapt; rapturous; rejoicing; risible; rollicking; singing; smiling; smirking; sparkling; sunny