How to use glee in a sentence

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More sentences with glee

• The young girl dimpled in glee as she was handed a cupcake.From the entry dimple
• Given his father’s ghastly demise, one would not expect such glee from the ascendant to his throne.From the entry ascendant
• She ran down the hill, windmilling her arms with glee.From the entry windmill
• Superman bashed Bavarians and kiboshed Krauts with a mix of solemn consecration, righteous anger and cathartic glee.2021, Roy Schwartz, “The Galactic Golem”, in Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero…. From the entry kibosh
• "You heard?" he asked with the most boyish glee I ever saw in him.2013, Nicolas, Banksters, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN. From the entry lawsuitable
• Imagine the glee in Microsoft headquarters if Google lost its trademark protection to genericide.2009 July 18, Noam Cohen, “The Power of the Brand as Verb”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry genericide
• So feignful for its creator to flee in glee as the mighty vessel was capsizing before him.2008, Sean C. Cusack, Code 3: The Rise & Fall of a Private Ambulance Empire, page 401. From the entry feignful
• I'm so glad you've found a life and work you can sink your toothypegs into with glee.2007, Brigit Binns, Christina Schmidhofer, The Relaxed Kitchen. From the entry toothypegs
• The whole room fell silent, the girls all paused with glee.2003, Big Boi, “The Way You Move”, in Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, New York: Arista Records. From the entry manwhore
• Their horrible glee The phantoms forsaking, about her chill form Loud mocking begather!1907, Edward Hardingham, Lays and legends of the forest of Essex. From the entry begather
• I smell chimken!” Atif clapped his hands with glee.2021 May 17, Khamille Ann Linsag, “Dua”, in SunStar Davao. From the entry chimken
• These goretastic good-ole-boys unloaded with a sadistic glee; they shot up that poor old car with a real joyful vigor.2020, Jonny Ross, Envy the Dead, Dorrance Publishing Company Inc., →ISBN, page 116. From the entry goretastic
• It lacks the extinctionist glee of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy.2019 March 23, Sarah Ditum, “Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff review – post-apocalyptic road trip”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry extinctionist
• Thanks to one user's glee at revealing his chaotic evil shenanigans to the world, a photo of it has gone viral.2019 November 19, Ashley Hoffman, “Trolling Expert Unleashes the Most Chaotic Evil Prank: Fake Airpod^([sic]) Stickers”, in Time, New…. From the entry chaotic evil
• They glee in bullet-pointing a mere few how-to’s, delicately masking any and all complexities; carefully dismissing the difficulties involved.2016, Wynston Alexander Wilson, Antidotes for Adversity: 21 Effective Ways to Get Through Life’s Toughest Challenges, Createspace, →ISBN…. From the entry bullet-point
• But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America's discomfort and its foes' glee.2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry hover
• An astraphobe's moments of pure glee.2021, Khushi Sharma, Aashi Toor, Evoking Nostalgia, BooksClub, page 103. From the entry astraphobe
• Baron Cohen turns his attentions back towards England, satirising the Establishment’s contempt for what Nobby himself proudly calls “scum” with ribald and corrosive glee.2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph, London. From the entry ribald
• There’s a sort of deranged, gluttonous feeling, a perverse glee in seeing so many dreams trampled on by a massive cultural juggernaut.2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London). From the entry juggernaut
• Carr added that he had never seen "another who provoked so much mirth, and who entered into rollicking fun with such glee.2015, Gordon Leidner, Lincoln's Gift: How Humor Shaped Lincoln's Life and Legacy. From the entry make a cat laugh
• Today, the Bangs auction house would have been rubbing its hands with unconcealed glee and kiting the price of the manuscript into the stratosphere.2009, Thomas Fleming, “George Washington: The Agonies of Honor”, in The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry kite
• As a bright young thing—which, it could be argued, is what he remained until almost his dying day—Noël Coward wrote letters filled with effusive glee.2007 Dec. 3, Janet Maslin, "Dear Alfred, Gertie and Mummy-snooks: Love, Noelie" (book review of The Letters of Noël Coward ), New York…. From the entry bright young thing
• More specifically, how do you find that lass who first induced priapic glee in the ol' fuzzy downbelows behind the bike sheds?2007, Joe Shooman, "Whose Space is it Anyway?". From the entry downbelows
• They snow the shop floor blind, anklefuls, silencing footfall, corkscrewing in blocks of sun — how light and illiterate with glee they settle.2001, Indiana Review - Volume 23, page 103. From the entry ankleful
• Like the "little child, a limber elf" in the Conclusion to Part II of "Christabel," this faery child quite bubbles over with "lifeful glee,"1990, Jeanie Watson, Risking enchantment: Coleridge's symbolic world of faery, page 206. From the entry lifeful
• Perhaps you’d like to play God now and then—i.e. choose the word yourself and watch in glee as Wordlers’ eyebrows grow ever more furrowed with each guess.2022 November 23, Ellen Gutoskey, “This Wordle Board Game Lets You Play in Groups, Pick Your Own Words, and More”, in Mental Floss…. From the entry Wordler
• Charlie, now menacingly equipped with a bionic arm, is these days in the service of new pantomime big bad, Poppy Adams, played with lysergic glee by Julianne Moore.2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the…. From the entry big bad
• Sink, th’ eminent Grand Island cigar manufacturer, was out “dog-nosing” jack rabbits th’ other night, a glee club serenaded his home for two hours without response.1916 February 5, Anonymous, “Hort Flug Sez”, United States Tobacco Journal Volume 85, No.8, page 17. From the entry dog-nose
• Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café. From the entry prattle

Meaning of glee

1. noun Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
2. noun Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
3. noun An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.

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Questions about glee in a sentence

How do you use glee in a sentence?

Glee is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The young girl dimpled in glee as she was handed a cupcake.”

What is a short sentence with glee?

“An astraphobe's moments of pure glee.”

What does glee mean?

Glee means joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.