Example sentences for: gleefully

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

  • Journalists gleefully anticipated that Democrats would exploit the story in Friday's House impeachment debate.

  • Each year since 1976, they have published a List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use or General Uselessness, and each year news media across the continent gleefully and unthinkingly report their edicts—which this year included the fairly innocuous verbs skyrocket and spearhead .

  • A piece gleefully imagines what will happen to President Clinton's popularity in a future economic downturn.

  • Bitch, Bitch, Bitch: I've always been grateful to Elizabeth Wurtzel for teaching me the meaning of the word Schadenfreude . It was a concept that came up a lot in the days immediately following Tina Brown's installation as editor at The New Yorker , as many journalists of my acquaintance gleefully counted down the moments until Wurtzel was deposed as pop music critic.

  • Democrats have gleefully used the party-line House vote to distinguish Clinton's situation from that of President Nixon in 1974.


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