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
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Poor soul," they say, "it is a happy release.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard
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 Bidwell, Austin
On Mr. Pickwick’s happy release and when every one was rejoining, Wardle invited the whole party to a family dinner at the Osborne.
From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
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