Example sentences for: glee

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

  • "You live by buzz, you die by buzz," says an ex- New Yorker editor, with malicious glee.

  • This root, or closely related ones, such as * ghol , yield a whole slough of modern English words via various Proto-Germanic and related IE roots: yellow, gild, gall (a yellowish substance), choler, cholera, melancholy black bile, and chlorine , all via Greek kholé yellow bile and Greek chlidé luxury and Proto-Germanic * ghhleid and * glazem: gleam, glint, glimmer, glisten, glass, glaze, gloss, glance, glade, glee, glow, gloaming, glide , and glissade --quite a haul from what is basically a single root!

  • They write with glee about my poor year last year--I was up 2 percent vs. much higher S&P results.

  • Were he alive, Dwight Macdonald, archenemy of all things low-and middlebrow, would be rubbing his hands with malicious glee.

  • I'm going to cheat by pointing out that I know you didn't see the movie in a packed, responsive house, or you would, I'm certain, have been thrilled by the screams of glee that attended each fabulous number.


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