Example Sentences

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In some ways, this doesn’t really change your options: Cheerfully say no if or when she informs you that her husband secretly wants something from you that he hasn’t said to you himself.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2020

Cheerfully: “We’re fine — I just need ____,” which you then prove by inviting her back.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2019

Cheerfully partial and unapologetically deferential to its subject’s operatic self-promotion, “Jodorowsky’s Dune” makes you wish that he had scraped together the final $5 million needed, we are told, to realize his dream.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2014

Cheerfully, he remembers that the museum is in the next street, just around the corner.

From Newsweek

Cheerfully, gladly can I sign a petition for the enfranchisement of women.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady