Example sentences for: glee

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

  • But I note with glee that conservative defenders of the status quo argue a version of the old Jesse Unruh line about being able to take a man's money (to fully quote Jesse, "and eat his food, and drink his booze, and screw his women") and still vote against him--but, when the Heritage Foundation trots out its tabulation of how countries vote in the U.N.

  • "[W]omen [should] giggle with vengeful glee," says Newsweek 's Allison Samuels; the "big dose of sister-girl humor" is sure to be a crowd pleaser.

  • "You're gonna have a shiner in the morning," someone tells Brandon after a barroom brawl, and he takes the news with a glee that's almost mystical: "I am?

  • College freshman still read with flendish glee the first line in Canto I of Spenser's The Faerie Queene (and never mind the title!)

  • The lumber-byproduct media have reported with glee a study out of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh purporting to show that spending time on the Internet tends to make people more lonely and depressed.


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