CHEERFUL in a Sentence

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Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHEERFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cheerful
 a.  having or showing good spirits
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I felt also sentiments of joy and affection revive in my bosom; my gloom disappeared, and in a short time I became as cheerful as before I was attacked by the fatal passion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  You will find a happy, cheerful home and friends who love you dearly.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  The old man had, in the meantime, been pensive, but on the appearance of his companions he assumed a more cheerful air, and they sat down to eat.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
4  He would talk in a cheerful accent, with an expression of goodness that bestowed pleasure even upon me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
5  But if his countenance was more sorrowful, his voice was more cheerful than that of his sister, especially when he addressed the old man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
6  The birds sang in more cheerful notes, and the leaves began to bud forth on the trees.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
7  Felix replied in a cheerful accent, and the old man was recommencing his music when someone tapped at the door.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  He reminds me how often the same accidents have happened to other navigators who have attempted this sea, and in spite of myself, he fills me with cheerful auguries.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
9  Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  They came to the door with me and stood side by side in a cheerful square of light.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  A dead man passed us in a hearse heaped with blooms, followed by two carriages with drawn blinds and by more cheerful carriages for friends.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  And last the murky yellow cars of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad looking cheerful as Christmas itself on the tracks beside the gate.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  In seasons of cheerfulness, no temper could be more cheerful than hers, or possess, in a greater degree, that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
15  "That is true," cried Marianne, in a cheerful voice, and walking to the window as she spoke, to examine the day.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
16  The nurse was a cheerful but phlegmatic person, unexcited in the face of sudden emergencies.
17  Her friends at work greeted the news of her engagement with cheerful badinage.
18  The debonair youth was liked by all who met him, because of his cheerful and obliging manner.
19  With her cheerful smile and rosy cheeks, she was a particularly cherubic child.
20  Irritatingly cheerful, always looking on the bright side, Pollyanna speaks nothing but treacly sentimentalities.
21  All these vehicles went by with a cheerful briskness; there was hardly ever a block for them in the traffic.
22  He was in an expansive humor, cheerfully urging his guests to join in the Christmas feast.
23  The venal policeman cheerfully accepted the bribe offered him by the speeding motorist whom he had stopped.
24  How cheerfully he seems to grin; How neatly spread his claws; And welcome little fishes in; With gently smiling jaws
25  After the game, the members of the two teams fraternize as cheerfully as if they have never been rivals.
26  Although he seemed to accept cheerfully the indignity hit upon him, he was inwardly very angry.
27  I like her, although I could cheerfully throttle her at times.
28  The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty and truth.
29  If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
30  The burden on likes is cheerfully borne.