HAPPY in a Sentence

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For HAPPY, below is one of 420 sentences:
We returned to our college on a Sunday afternoon: the peasants were dancing, and every one we met appeared gay and happy.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAPPY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
happy
 a.  feeling, showing, or causing pleasure or satisfaction
 a.  lucky or suitable
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  Very well, and very happy, only a little uneasy that they hear from you so seldom.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  You will find a happy, cheerful home and friends who love you dearly.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  My trifling occupations take up my time and amuse me, and I am rewarded for any exertions by seeing none but happy, kind faces around me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  We returned to our college on a Sunday afternoon: the peasants were dancing, and every one we met appeared gay and happy.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  Felix seemed peculiarly happy and with smiles of delight welcomed his Arabian.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
11  Safie was always gay and happy; she and I improved rapidly in the knowledge of language, so that in two months I began to comprehend most of the words uttered by my protectors.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  They did not appear rich, but they were contented and happy; their feelings were serene and peaceful, while mine became every day more tumultuous.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
13  Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
15  I am happy to remark, my dear son, that you have resumed your former pleasures and seem to be returning to yourself.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
17  I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remem-bering my good friends.
18  There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.
19  Best wishes on a long and happy life together.
20  A point less trouble, will be more happy; forget the troubles, will be happy all the time.
21  True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends.
22  He's a very versatile young actor who's as happy in horror films as he is in TV comedies.
23  If there's anything you don't understand, I'll be happy to explain.
24  Call no man happy until he dies.
25  All of us were deeply absorbed in happy reminiscences.
26  We are very happy to extend to you our utmost congratulations on your finishing your college course so successfully.
27  Sometimes silence is not happy, just want to put the heart headroom.
28  The surest way to be happy is to be busy.
29  If you can be well without health you may be happy without virtue.
30  I really don't know whether to be happy or sad here today.