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How to use cheerfully in a sentence

18 example sentences · adverb

Cheerfully means in a cheerful manner. Example: “The baby animal trotted cheerfully around the grassy enclosure, adorable in her hippopotamine rotundness.”

Examples of cheerfully by meaning

adverbIn a cheerful manner.

  • 'Well, what have you done this time?' asked Sebastian cheerfully.1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 90

More sentences with cheerfully

  • The baby animal trotted cheerfully around the grassy enclosure, adorable in her hippopotamine rotundness.From the entry hippopotamine
  • " And have bird cack on their heads , " Jacques agreed cheerfully, to Ash's relief.2016, Patricia Rice, Theory of Magic. From the entry cack
  • "Scuse me," a voice said cheerfully, "can I snatch you guyses Tabasco sauce?"2010, Mary Sojourner, Going Through Ghosts, page 44. From the entry guyses
  • "I came away with two fleas in each ear," Mark recalled cheerfully, ten years later.1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels. From the entry flea in one's ear
  • To my surprise he took our caustic remarks about the climate very calmly, even cheerfully.1952, Ursula Venables, Tempestuous Eden, page 147. From the entry ree
  • Cheerfully, and in my honey-sweetest voice I asked: “Can you give me a dime for two nickels?”1942 October 24, Pat McVean, ““Black-Out” Nickel Fools Many People”, in The Leader-Post, volume XXXIV, number 251, Regina, Sask., page…. From the entry honey-sweet
  • We shall have possibly to tackle a prize-fighter." "Right-o!" said Malone, cheerfully.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no.…. From the entry righto
  • "Right," Templeton said cheerfully, clapping his hands together.2013, Kim Foster, chapter 14, in A Beautiful Heist, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN. From the entry pip pip
  • Apparently, I was the only one on the track who saw through Lexy's fakeitude, because everyone else was nodding cheerfully.2010, Kay Cassidy, The Cinderella Society. From the entry fakeitude
  • The orderly arrived promptly in his well-pressed loose green tunic, good-morninged cheerfully, and bustled around locating bedroom slippers and dressing gown.1988 October 10, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 83–84. From the entry good-morning
  • Repperton came by, whistling cheerfully, a Coke and a bag of peanuts in one hand, a jackhandle in the other.1983, Stephen King, Christine. From the entry jackhandle
  • And he wasn't booksy and didn't pretend to be: he cheerfully admitted to reading no books except the occasional thriller.1972, John Braine, The queen of a distant country. From the entry booksy
  • Anyway, it's all water over the dam,' he added cheerfully.1953, Ian Fleming, “Vesper”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 154. From the entry water over the dam
  • Did he come so cheerfully to die for me, and do I go so deadheartedly to prayers and sacraments to enjoy fellowship with him?1990, C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, →ISBN, page 248. From the entry deadheartedly
  • People shouted cheerfully and flinched, but the Prime Minister didn't flinch, she fortified her voice with a firm diapason as if rising to the challenge of a rowdy Chamber.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry courtier
  • "Often on the highway, weary and wary, we spurn the unknown and cheerfully drive on for the promise of a Howard Johnson's and its familiar dèja vu.1970 August 12, Gael Greene, Time Magazine, page 12. From the entry HoJo's
  • Prem, who knew him slightly from Dehra Dun (where Dhillon had been his junior), remembers Dhillon cheerfully telling everyone that the firangi were glad to have Indians patrolling their wire.1995, Peter Ward Fay, The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945, page 109. From the entry firangi

Meaning of cheerfully

  1. adverb In a cheerful manner.

Full definition of cheerfully

Questions about cheerfully in a sentence

How do you use cheerfully in a sentence?
Cheerfully is used as an adverb. For example: “The baby animal trotted cheerfully around the grassy enclosure, adorable in her hippopotamine rotundness.”
What is a short sentence with cheerfully?
“"Right," Templeton said cheerfully, clapping his hands together.”
What does cheerfully mean?
Cheerfully means in a cheerful manner.

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