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How to use joyful in a sentence

16 example sentences · adjective

Joyful means feeling or causing joy. Example: “The children were joyful on the first day of summer break.”

Examples of joyful by meaning

adjectiveFeeling or causing joy.

  • The children were joyful on the first day of summer break.
  • Her joyful smile lit up the room.

More sentences with joyful

  • My heart fluttered like a kaleidoscope of butterflies, accompanied by an ocean of joyful tears.2026, Lyndon Fitzgerald Harris, Forgiveness at Ground Zero: A Journey of Service, Loss, and Redemption After 9/11, Bloomsbury Publishing…. From the entry kaleidoscope
  • Dionysus was accompanied by a joyful, winedrunk procession of Satyrs, Silens and maenads.2018 May 1, Jan Bouzek, Studies of Homeric Greece, Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, →ISBN, page 241. From the entry winedrunk
  • Artist and audience are bound together in a three-legged race, sometimes reluctant partners, sometimes joyful in synchroneity.1979 April 13, Jocelyn Paine, “The partnership of artist and audience”, in Anchorage Daily News, retrieved 24 Aug 2010, page D1. From the entry synchroneity
  • And now the drought is broken, let's be joyful in our gains.1915, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Isaac Kaufman Funk, William Seaver Woods, The Literary Digest - Volume 51, page 33. From the entry kyoodle
  • 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
  • He's such a joyful, celebratory, sybaritic person.2017 October 16, Alexandra Schwartz, quoting Jennifer Egan, “Jennifer Egan’s Travels Through Time”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New…. From the entry sybaritic
  • Jem detached his pince-nez, and while wiping them repeated in a deep voice, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord."2015, Harper Lee, chapter 5, in Go Set a Watchman, page 64. From the entry pince-nez
  • The force is quiet; the capital sings the song short of joyful prayers and apart form the war that brought Liberation to party-dom.2015, Shaheen Asbagh, China. From the entry partydom
  • So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable.2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in…. From the entry seem
  • He had a whoopingly joyful time for several miles, with his swift thoroughbred racing just behind or at the side of the big Plains animal.1976, Thomas Bailey Marquis, Keep the last bullet for yourself: the true story of Custer's last stand, page 25. From the entry whoopingly
  • No joyful voices praised the Lord.1956, Reginald Spencer Ellery, The Cow Jumped Over the Moon: Private Papers of a Psychiatrist. From the entry vincture
  • Shreve creates a little world, peoples it with believable characters, and puts them through agonizing and joyful moments without a false note or a dissonant figure of speech.2010 December 10, Brigitte Weeks, “Book World: From its opening car crash, Anita Shreve's character-driven Rescue is worth the ride”, in…. From the entry false note
  • Adults adulterate the joyful givenness of life into an encumbering, burdenful yoke- a yoke which must be cast off, if we are to ever reach greener pastures.2002, Jack Haas, “The Myth of Knowing”, in The Way of Wonder: A Return to the Mystery of Ourselves, Vancouver, B.C.: Iconoclast Press…. From the entry burdenful
  • These factors must be kept in mind in the planning of a system of bodily exercises for school use, if the result is to be a healthy, joyful, deedworthy generation.1912, Mind and Body, volume 19, page 410. From the entry deedworthy

Meaning of joyful

  1. adjective Feeling or causing joy.

Full definition of joyful

Questions about joyful in a sentence

How do you use joyful in a sentence?
Joyful is used as an adjective. For example: “The children were joyful on the first day of summer break.”
What is a short sentence with joyful?
“No joyful voices praised the Lord.”
What does joyful mean?
Joyful means feeling or causing joy.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: joyful (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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