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
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 Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford
The ice was broken; we soon became fast friends, and our friendship remained unbroken until their happy release some years after.
From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Austin Bidwell
We were unanimous in describing that gentleman's demise as an uncommonly happy release.
From Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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