happy release
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As could happen maybe only in a pandemic, the happy release of the bracket will follow a week of tortured brackets.
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2021
In fact, for factory-farmed animals, death must be a happy release from a life of sheer misery.
From Time Magazine Archive
One can easily imagine that the contemporaries of the five-toed horse might have welcomed death as a happy release from their too sultry existence.
From Here are Ladies by Stephens, James
But to one who suffers the torture which it is the will of Heaven that I should bear, speedy death would only be a happy release.
From Lewie Or, The Bended Twig by Bradford, Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins)
His death, in 1891, was a happy release.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur
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