Gleefully

"Gleefully" in a Sentence (13 examples)

The little ones stood quite silent, but only for a minute; then they shouted till the room rang: they danced gleefully round the Tree, and one present after another was plucked from it.

"Why didn't you say so before?" she said laughing gleefully. "You gave me such a fright. Why, of course, now as long as we die we'll be with mother again."

Tom rubbed his hands together gleefully.

Melissa gleefully prepared moussaka and spanakopita for her family.

It is the 15th of March of 2015, at a pizzeria on Lulu Island. Adil the Kazakh and I discuss the multilingual and multicultural landscape of South Asia, centuries ago, when there were many kingdoms in the region. Farsi was an elitist language, he says. His Kazakh is a Turkic language in Central Asia. I dutifully and gleefully inform him about PIE, Proto-Indo-European, the ancestral language of many Caucasoids today. The origin in theory is Southern Russia near the Black Sea, more than 6000 years ago. PIE was the great-great-grandfather of languages like Spanish, English, German, Welsh, Hindi, Greek, and many others today. Adil and I discuss about some modern humans who have genes from other species, like the Neanderthals and Denisovans. Scientists know that the brain size of the Neanderthal was bigger than the modern human's.

It is the 19th of January of 2017. I like this year's number "2017." I gleefully have been watching the six Star Trek series in dubbed Spanish on the Netflix app of my Apple iPad mini. Via the Web, I sometimes listen to Radio El Fonógrafo from Mexico, and it soothes me. For years, I have been reading French books, but now I think my Spanish needs more attention. Spanish translations as sci-fi Titán by Ben Bova and historical drama Azteca by Gary Jennings really impress me. Spanish is like chocolate or sticky rice cake.

She gleefully opened the parcel.

Bush gleefully announced the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Daniel rubbed his hands together gleefully.

Amanda gleefully kissed Daniel on the cheek.

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Al Habsi, so outstanding at Arsenal on Saturday, somehow scrambled the ball off the line, but only as far as Agbonlahor, who gleefully nodded home his first Premier League goal since last April.

Of course, the game that was ruining workplace productivity and infrastructure wasn’t innocent Tetris or the nationalistic Wolfenstein 3D—it was a game in which an ultraviolent marine gleefully murdered demons on a satanic Mars.

After refusing to sit down, [Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas] was escorted out of the House chamber, as some Republican lawmakers gleefully chanted “sha-nah-nah-nah, hey hey hey, goodbye.”

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