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3 total sentences available.
And then the forlorn and haunting howls echoed down the river narrows and into our ears from a mile away, and before we had a chance to look at each other in disbelief the dogs answered the pack joyously. "We're over here!" they seemed to say. "And we're over here!" the wolves howled back.
Source: tatoeba (11054598)
Uncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto had jumped out of her arms and was running toward the barn, barking joyously.
Source: wiktionary
Unusually, it runs non-stop from Hounslow to Barnes, and we took this 5¾ miles so joyously that we had to wait nearly two minutes at Barnes for the right-away!
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include gleefully, delightfully, exuberantly, happily, joyfully.
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