Example sentences for: gleefully

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

  • “Gorse and bracken, gorse and bracken,” chanted the children gleefully.

  • 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.

  • 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 .

  • Conservatives gleefully connected the dots: Rich homosexuals were funding Clinton in exchange for favors at other people's expense.

  • After The Threat aired, the Dole campaign gleefully revealed that the spot was a feint: It was backed by only a few advertising dollars and a low time-buy.


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