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• I was pleasantly surprised how immediately warm and welcoming all the other bookstagrammers were of my account.2020, Sam Miller, quoted in Linnea Wingerup, "Cheers To Being Queer (On The Internet!)", Peacock Magazine (American University of Paris)…. From the entry bookstagrammer
• I found that the chore of reorganizing the artifacts of my professional life was pleasantly ruminative.2010, Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, page 1. From the entry ruminative
• 'That's better!' he said, still smiling, but very much more pleasantly.2009, Georgette Heyer, Frederica, page 75. From the entry Dutch reckoning
• Russell took his usual chair and the usual trepidatory sip, and was pleasantly surprised.2008, David Downing, Silesian Station. From the entry trepidatory
• The pleasantly smushy-edged earcups on this new model do an excellent job of isolating your ears.2007 June 14, David Pogue, “Headphones to Shut Out the World”, in New York Times. From the entry earcup
• Yet I was pleasantly surprised to discover that some celebs can tubthump with the best of them.2004, Martin Rowson, And Another Thing...: The Book of Rants, page 2. From the entry tubthump
• I have slashed veins in my ankles and am pleasantly bleeding to death in this hot water.1984, Piers Anthony, On A Pale Horse, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry let nature take its course
• Their pleasantly risque jokes were muchly enjoyed by their set of friends.1958, Lee Forney Crawford, William Webb Crawford, Dean of Birmingham Bankers, and Family Sketches, Genealogies, Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts…. From the entry muchly
• Charming, he said in a finical sweet voice, showing his white teeth and blinking his eyes pleasantly.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry finical
• “For Pete's sake, don't look so critical!” objected the emanation pleasantly.1920 September, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “Head and Shoulders”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons…. From the entry for Pete's sake
• Ieva Reklaityke’s work in Kalamazoo on sewers unclogged my mind, Martha Bayless’s latrinal insights were pleasantly pungent, and Kevin J.2015, Susan Signe Morrison, The Literature of Waste, acknowledgements. From the entry latrinal
• By contrast, he is urbane, Mayfairish and pleasantly casual.2011, J. J. Kennedy, The Man Who Wrote the Teddy Bears' Picnic, page 100. From the entry Mayfairish
• In a girl’s cells, you don’t see two pleasantly active X chromosomes behaving like two ordinary nonsex chromosomes.2007 May 1, Natalie Angier, “For Motherly X Chromosome, Gender Is Only the Beginning”, in New York Times. From the entry nonsex
• Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a pleasantly nutty flavor.1997, Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook, Rodale, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry nutty
• "Go on, Uncle Max," said Nora pleasantly.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry apropos
• The lawn looked pleasantly empty and dudeless.1924, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Temperamental People. From the entry dudeless
• I amused myself by thinking that in his choice of books he showed pleasantly the irreconcilable sides of his fantastic nature.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXVI, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry irreconcilable
• "Coddling criminals"—the alliteration makes it roll pleasantly off the tongue!1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 5, in The Subterranean Brotherhood. From the entry roll off the tongue
• I am here as a vicambulist, someone who pleasantly strolls around cities for recreation, though like you I prefer the vernacular 'to ramble.'2017, Peter van Buren, Hooper's War, Sedona, A.Z.: Luminis Books, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry vicambulist
• As we explored the second floor of the building, we were pleasantly surprised to find a group of artists working away at their drawing boards.2013, Floyd Norman, “The Other Floyd: Mr. [Floyd] Gottfredson and His Famous Mouse”, in Animated Life: A Lifetime of Tips, Tricks and…. From the entry drawing board
• The porter must have seen me gawking, for he said pleasantly, "This is the atrium, the room Lady Julia uses for entertainment.2013, Joan Wolf, Daughter of Jerusalem, Brentwood, T.N.: Worthy Publishing, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry peristylum
• Just enough to get pleasantly snockered.2011, Gail Dayton, The Compass Rose. From the entry snockered
• His voice is pleasantly rumbly; his smile is so wide that it seems to have been drawn onto his face with a crayon.2007 June 24, Negar Azimi, “Hard Realities of Soft Power”, in New York Times. From the entry rumbly
• If you want little Timmy to be considered attractive and intelligent by your friends (and who doesn't?), he must learn to greet people pleasantly.1984, Emily Post, Emily Post's Etiquette, →OCLC. From the entry little Timmy
• I wrote Miss Crane off as mediocre because although she chatted quite pleasantly and intelligently over coffee she was mostly mumpchance at the dinner table.1966, Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown, page 69. From the entry mumchance
• Joolby," remarked Carrados very pleasantly—for Won Chou had at once slipped to the unlatched door as if to head off the intruder.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry unlatched
• Willowes made a poor recovery after Laura’s birth; as time went on, she became more and more invalidish, though always pleasantly so.1926, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1964, Part 1, p. 16. From the entry invalidish
• The stirring of the wind was pleasantly ominous to Reilly: it was quickening, encouraging, hostile to inertia; it came somewhence and was going somewhither.1922, Katherine (Fullerton) Gerould, Lost Valley, a Novel, Harper, Pennsylvania State University, published 2010, page 437. From the entry somewhither
• Passionate anthemics, prog-rock twists and turns, and several Hendrix-ian guitar burnouts by self-aware showman Patrick Krief aimed straight for the cheap seats and left everyone feeling pleasantly dazed.2009 March 16, Ben Rayner, “Hot sounds”, in Toronto Star. From the entry anthemic
• On their third album, Amorica (American), they stretch nicely beyond their Faces evocations, resulting in a pleasantly soulful, groovy, and sophisticatedly accurate recollection of a previous decade.1995 March 10, Peter Margasak, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry sophisticatedly
• They were pleasantly high, but in an almost self-conscious way, as if they were members of a tontine blessed by the unexpected death of two or three of its members.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 237. From the entry tontine
• The house where the Batesons had lived—a dear old couple, a pleasantly tottering, Darby and Joan pair, always ready to welcome little Miss Vane and give her strawberries and seedy-cake.1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon. From the entry Darby and Joan

Meaning of pleasantly

1. adverb In a pleasant manner; so as to achieve a pleasant result.
2. adverb Lightly.
3. adverb Ludicrously; facetiously.

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How do you use pleasantly in a sentence?

Pleasantly is used as an adverb. For example: “He smiled pleasantly at passersby.”

What is a short sentence with pleasantly?

“He smiled pleasantly at passersby.”

What does pleasantly mean?

Pleasantly means in a pleasant manner; so as to achieve a pleasant result.