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
It really was quite ludicrous that his first dream, of happy release from the service, should have such a horrible sequel.
From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz
Though a happy release for the clock, this is not convenient to the household.
From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by Hughes, William R. (William Richard)
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