How to Use gleeful in a Sentence

gleeful

adjective

• Louise turned to Lily, gleeful to fill in the Eleanor gaps.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Need more proof than the gleeful smile on this child's face?
  — CNN, 23 Aug. 2021
• The camera cut to White, who watched in a room nearby, gleeful.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• The other, from 2019, was of a young gleeful boy clutching a huge trout he'd just caught from the same pond.
  — oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2020
• The mouth is stretched into a gleeful, toothy grin, toeing the line between cheer and evil.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• Stars like Nicole Scherzinger and Brooke Shields were seemingly gleeful when the duo showed up in a big screen.
  — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 16 June 2024
• Urías held up his arms, pointing to Pollock, in a gleeful shock.
  — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• All this has Democrats gleeful about their Senate prospects.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2020
• The two boys share in wondrous and gleeful games of fantasy.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2023
• Similar to Pusha T, Drakeo is the gleeful villain of his own songs.
  — Alex Suskind, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• With all due respect, Madame Speaker—some of us think this is very gleeful!
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2019
• There is soon going to be a means of reaching this gleeful nirvana.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• Both Smith and Lawrence shared the news in gleeful Instagram posts Tuesday.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2023
• The gleeful, mischievous delight the Oompa Loompas take in the demise of those kids is so funny.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
• Through tears – and adorably delirious and gleeful laughter – Kennedy is awestruck, swaying back and forth to the beat of the song in disbelief.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
• There was to be no shopping for wedding gowns with a gleeful bridal party.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
• Some politicians seemed almost gleeful at the new state of affairs.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• Church types with a kind of gleeful aggressiveness and takes quick breaths.
  — David W. Brown, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
• The gleeful oligarch emerged from jail pledging to overthrow Mr Nazarbayev.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• But the idea of handling such a gleeful provocateur with kid gloves seems to somehow miss the point of De Palma’s work.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
• The Squirrel Nut Zippers had quite a heyday in the midst of the '90 swing dance era, and one of their most famous songs is a gleeful ode to the afterlife.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• In the winter stillness on a frozen lake, a man’s gleeful howl torpedoed the quietude.
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• At times, the host and his producers were gleeful about what a news cycle without Mr. Trump would look like.
  — Katie Robertson, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• The track starts with DJ Khaled’s gleeful ad-libs before the familiar synth beat from the Usher classic kicks in.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2023
• And maybe that’s the power, too, of the show’s gleeful, jagged, imperfect forays into video.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• Even his nasty asides about Nancy Pelosi and Biden and fake news sounded less gleeful than usual.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2020
• The swearing and the gleeful overt talk of sexuality wasn’t just part of the bargain of being around him.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 13 Dec. 2017
• Take a look at the recent share price performance of handset makers and there’s not much left to be gleeful about.
  — Tim Culpan | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• On a show that makes gleeful sport of onscreen death, Martell's remains one of the most gruesome in GoT history.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Apr. 2019
• His dithering was Shakespearean, and Republicans were gleeful about the chaos.
  — Storer H. Rowley, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024