How to Use happy camper in a Sentence

happy camper

noun
  • I was one happy camper when I heard the news.
  • In the process of all this, Gurf was not a happy camper.
    Jason Scott, Billboard, 30 June 2018
  • That may be so, but Yusupov is a happy camper as of Thursday.
    Thomas Heath, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Our favorite sleeping bags, first aid kits, and more must-haves that'll make your pup a happy camper.
    Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Win McNamee Donald Trump hasn't been the happiest camper this week.
    Luke Darby, GQ, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Soon knives are wielded and guts are spilled as an elusive figure takes down each happy camper one by one.
    Nathan Smith, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Tony Pulis was no happy camper either, and the manager would point out that his team haven't been given a penalty in over a year.
    SI.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • North Carolina State head coach Dave Doeren was not a happy camper.
    Mark Frank, Star Tribune, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Traveling with a friend good at snuggling can make most of us happier campers.
    Judi Dash, Philly.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • But Benzinger missed a three-pointer with 1 second left and the Panthers were happy to head back to Milwaukee as happy campers.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Kendricks will likely be a happier camper elsewhere, too.
    Zach Berman, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
  • Some of the happiest campers are our regions passionate cross-country skiers.
    John Hopewell, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson is not a happy camper at the moment.
    SI.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Everyone's a happy camper at this summer-fun retreat — complete with tents, campfires and a mess hall — on Washington's Puget Sound.
    Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 10 July 2017
  • On signing day, as in Lake Wobegon, every recruit is above average, every coach a happy camper.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • No one’s a happy camper when there’s a mask-wearing, machete-wielding homicidal maniac running amok in the woods in this classic 1980 slasher flick.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman, remember him, was rarely a happy camper.
    Armond White, National Review, 5 May 2021
  • And Shelton was not a happy camper, using his block as an opportunity to attempt revenge on Legend.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
  • No one said that cooking dinner for a family was going to be easy, but these kid-friendly meals will help make everyone at the dinner table a happy camper (including you!).
    Katelyn Lunders, Woman's Day, 24 June 2022
  • The siblings took the best parts of Burning Man and Coachella — the communion of artists, musicians and a troop of happy campers — and left behind the unappealing aspects, such as the desert dust and the millennials in Woodstock attire.
    Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Parents also can keep up with their kids on the camp’s Facebook page, where photographs of happy campers — in sailboats and canoes, navigating a high ropes course, or traversing a zip line — are among the images posted daily.
    Hattie Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Cesc Fabregas wasn't a happy camper after Huddersfield's defence left Chelsea's top-four hopes badly damaged on Wednesday night.
    SI.com, 10 May 2018
  • The combination of Bailey's frustration and euphoria over being in the OR again catapults her into a decision that makes everyone who watches this show a happy camper.
    Yolanda MacHado, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022

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