cheerful - use in sentences

Preposition: in

  • response: Uses to decide cheerful in response on time they service fees on.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: It was a sound which did not make _her_ cheerful; she wondered that Edmund should forget her, and felt a pang.

Modifies a noun

  • giver: He loves you, a special love, for the cheerful giver.
  • disposition: With this kind of positive attitude, you will attain a cheerful disposition to beat the blues.
  • countenance: About her twentieth year she is described as being somewhat above the middle height, possessing a graceful form and an open cheerful countenance.
  • smile: Alan: [ With a cheerful smile ] Yes I am.
  • optimism: In its cheerful optimism this article is particularly characteristic of its author.
  • chap: Then we have a cheerful chap whose good humor is as ample as his proportions.

Modifying Another Word

  • unfailingly: Unfailingly cheerful, in spite of indifferent health, he developed, in later life, an enthusiasm for computing.
  • relentlessly: Yet despite all this Sarah is relentlessly cheerful and positive.
  • remarkably: The scene, indeed, was not remarkably cheerful in itself, either within or without.
  • wonderfully: She sleeps very badly at night, & is very nervous at times, but wonderfully cheerful in general.
  • surprisingly: Surprisingly cheerful and sunny day for the top of the Macc!
  • quite: The two men, however, were quite cheerful.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: Cons: Drivers don't seem quite as cheerful as other staff, not sure why.
  • remain: He was laughing and joking about the events on the Friday and has remained cheerful during his illness.
  • appear: Often in pain, he never failed to appear cheerful.
  • feel: I felt like I had a dagger in my heart, and that I would never feel cheerful again.
  • look: The city looked cheerful in the bright sunlight, the streets lined with trees, with little garden patches between them.
  • keep: If " Brian " could be kept cheerful, and if nobody was ill ( and, alas!

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