Example Sentences

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They certainly remind us of the optimism, innocence and joy with which America has gladdened the world since the big screen's inception.

From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2013

As releasing agent for Walt Disney productions, it has gladdened the hearts of both; and such RKO-produced pictures as Top Hat and Kitty Foyle have clicked with both critics and box office.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nay, keep it so, The colour on it now has gladdened you.

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon

Forster has gladdened our hearts with his account of the triumph of "Acis and Galatea," and I am anxiously looking for news of the tragedy.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina

No piece of news of late years has gladdened me like the victory of the Prussians over the Austrians. 

From Pages from a Journal with Other Papers by Rutherford, Mark