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How to use cheery in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Cheery means in a good mood, happy, cheerful. Example: “The people I met at the support group were a mixed bag: some were grouchy pessimists, and others were cheery do-gooders.”

Examples of cheery by meaning

adjectiveIn a good mood, happy, cheerful.

  • The air, too, was heavy with perfume, and a nightingale, high in the heavens, gave out a cheery song of welcome.1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 222

More sentences with cheery

  • The people I met at the support group were a mixed bag: some were grouchy pessimists, and others were cheery do-gooders.From the entry mixed bag
  • My grandfather was something of a micawber, never letting setbacks or misfortune drag down his cheery disposition.2018, Joseph Piercy, 1000 Words to Expand Your Vocabulary. From the entry micawber
  • We were the happiest, cheeriest bunch of crims in the whole prison.2012, Ian McTavish, A Prisoner's Wisdom: Transcending the Ego, page 128. From the entry crim
  • It’s a sure thing you won’t find a sunnier, cheerier color.1949 April 20, Pat White, “Teen Pan Alley: Play Tricks with Flowers – Yellow Tops Spring Colors”, in Evening Courier, sports final…. From the entry blackette
  • An' he donned his clathers an' hobbled cross his courtlage to the stable – an' not expecting a cheery sight.2016, Amrita Tezla, The Folk of the Twill, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry cockleert
  • Our young friends in the KOR invited us for a Christmas Eve feast in a cold but cheery apartment.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 191. From the entry kor
  • A boy of the cheery gypsy ragamuffin variety.1984, Douglas Adams, chapter 21, in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 112. From the entry ragamuffin
  • Cheery hellbrew of cops, dames, gats and slugging.1952 January 30, Punch, page 186. From the entry hellbrew
  • Brown of the Black Dog," or some other cheery information.1941 December, “Notes and News: Timetable features of the Past”, in Railway Magazine, page 570. From the entry fly
  • A cheery, unleery show, entirely suited to evoke forgetfulness of those November fogs through which it seems destined to run.1925, Reginald Hargreaves, “‘The Unfair Sex’”, in The Theatre World, London, →OCLC, page 75, column 2. From the entry unleery
  • Sara, microwaving a naanwich, had answered with a breathy, unsteady voice, as if winded from weeks of preparing her greeting's cheery nonchalance.2016, Dylan Hicks, Amateurs: A Novel. From the entry naanwich
  • Viggo assumed a cheery offhand manner, but I could see that he was worried, doubtful as to the advisability of leaving me here alone.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 36f. From the entry advisability
  • While my bunkmates jotted cheery letters to their families, I whimpered into my pillow, an incipient hodophobe racked by some impossible mix of homesickness and wanderlust.2016, Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language, Ne York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry hodophobe
  • Professor Stephen Hawking put the cat among the pigeons last week with his cheery remarks about comet Machholz-2, which some astronomers believe could be heading our way.1994 September 19, The Times. From the entry put the cat among the pigeons
  • Talk about a fine romance: Clinton's and Bush's campaign engineers trading cheery screw-yous from points along the trail, then meeting up for a bantering dinner a deux.1994, Mirabella - Volume 6, Issues 1-6, page 106. From the entry screw-you
  • From General Peckem's office on the mainland came prolix bulletins each day headed by such cheery homilies as "Procrastination is the Thief of Time and "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness."1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Major Major Major Major”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 90. From the entry prolix

Meaning of cheery

  1. adjective In a good mood, happy, cheerful.

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Questions about cheery in a sentence

How do you use cheery in a sentence?
Cheery is used as an adjective. For example: “The people I met at the support group were a mixed bag: some were grouchy pessimists, and others were cheery do-gooders.”
What is a short sentence with cheery?
“A boy of the cheery gypsy ragamuffin variety.”
What does cheery mean?
Cheery means in a good mood, happy, cheerful.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheery (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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