How to Use gleeful in a Sentence

gleeful

adjective
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  • Louise turned to Lily, gleeful to fill in the Eleanor gaps.
    — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Need more proof than the gleeful smile on this child's face?
    — CNN, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The camera cut to White, who watched in a room nearby, gleeful.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The other, from 2019, was of a young gleeful boy clutching a huge trout he'd just caught from the same pond.
    — oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2020
  • The mouth is stretched into a gleeful, toothy grin, toeing the line between cheer and evil.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Stars like Nicole Scherzinger and Brooke Shields were seemingly gleeful when the duo showed up in a big screen.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 16 June 2024
  • Urías held up his arms, pointing to Pollock, in a gleeful shock.
    — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • All this has Democrats gleeful about their Senate prospects.
    — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The two boys share in wondrous and gleeful games of fantasy.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Similar to Pusha T, Drakeo is the gleeful villain of his own songs.
    — Alex Suskind, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • With all due respect, Madame Speaker—some of us think this is very gleeful!
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2019
  • In the Donald Trump era, at least, the media is playing the role of gleeful arsonist.
    — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 11 June 2017
  • There is soon going to be a means of reaching this gleeful nirvana.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Both Smith and Lawrence shared the news in gleeful Instagram posts Tuesday.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The gleeful, mischievous delight the Oompa Loompas take in the demise of those kids is so funny.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
  • Through tears – and adorably delirious and gleeful laughter – Kennedy is awestruck, swaying back and forth to the beat of the song in disbelief.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
  • There was to be no shopping for wedding gowns with a gleeful bridal party.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Some politicians seemed almost gleeful at the new state of affairs.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Church types with a kind of gleeful aggressiveness and takes quick breaths.
    — David W. Brown, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The gleeful oligarch emerged from jail pledging to overthrow Mr Nazarbayev.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But the idea of handling such a gleeful provocateur with kid gloves seems to somehow miss the point of De Palma’s work.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The Squirrel Nut Zippers had quite a heyday in the midst of the '90 swing dance era, and one of their most famous songs is a gleeful ode to the afterlife.
    — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In the winter stillness on a frozen lake, a man’s gleeful howl torpedoed the quietude.
    — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • At times, the host and his producers were gleeful about what a news cycle without Mr. Trump would look like.
    — Katie Robertson, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The track starts with DJ Khaled’s gleeful ad-libs before the familiar synth beat from the Usher classic kicks in.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And maybe that’s the power, too, of the show’s gleeful, jagged, imperfect forays into video.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Even his nasty asides about Nancy Pelosi and Biden and fake news sounded less gleeful than usual.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The swearing and the gleeful overt talk of sexuality wasn’t just part of the bargain of being around him.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Take a look at the recent share price performance of handset makers and there’s not much left to be gleeful about.
    — Tim Culpan | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • This also means the final act plays like a sanctifying highlights reel but the film’s gleeful humor and sharp wit largely keeps this chaotic rollercoaster on its tracks.
    — Leila Latif, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024

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