Example sentences for: happily

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

  • Here was Kazin, 50 years older than I but still traveling happily toward New York, still talking about books and people with passion and devotion, and still holding out the promise of a New World.

  • b) Happily parroted Clinton's denial despite knowing that Clinton was a deceitful womanizer.

  • Being a dwarf, in fact, is sometimes a ticket to fame and fortune, as in the case of Joseph Boruwlawski, last of the court dwarfs, who enchanted European royalty, married a beautiful woman, and lived happily to the age of 98.

  • It surely evolved from earlier use in more literal, straightforward contexts (for instance, to describe the sound of an automobile engine or a musical performance) and ultimately from the long-established and nonjudgmental phrase to make noises (that is, to express oneself about something), a construction that happily accommodates all manner of adjectival prefixes.

  • This, I suppose, is politics: The GOP will happily concede the substance (money) to win the symbolism.


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