Example sentences for: cheering

How can you use “cheering” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Defense Secretary William Cohen's offer to help Russia fight terrorism is "a cheering indication of how close the two world powers have come since the end of the Cold War less than a decade ago."

  • The NYT reports that President Clinton used sharply partisan language in knocking the Republican budget before a cheering, sympathetic crowd of AFL-CIO members in Las Vegas, saying it "shortchanges our nation's future," by eliminating his new initiatives on education, job training and child care.

  • (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). However, quite a few softies like it: "Lewis and Ribisi eventually win you over" (Turan, the Los Angeles Times ); "by the storybook conclusion I was cheering them on, against all critical instinct" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). Stephen Holden of the New York Times opens his review with what sounds like a joke ("A beautifully acted love story") but isn't; he's the film's biggest fan.

  • McCain's media "cheering section" neglects its favorite candidate's lack of coherence on tax and health-care policy.

  • His friends at the party were "gloomy and distraught" and it was Clinton who was cheering them up.


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