Sentences with 'gleefully'
Example sentences and phrases with the word gleefully and other words derived from it.
• « The result was the "Great Fear", in which the peasants attacked and plundered the nobles. Their main target was the debt books that the nobles kept on their peasants, which the peasants gleefully burned (thus erasing their debts completely - there was no "back-up" in 1789). »
• « The critically acclaimed "art film" The Cook, the Thief, His Wife Her Lover is not a film for the delicate of stomach. In the first scene, the main character gleefully urinates on a naked, handcuffed man. In the final scene, the same character slices up a cooked and elegantly prepared human corpse in a frighteningly realistic picture of cannibalism. »
• « British colonists celebrated gleefully, chanting the refrain of "Rule, Britannia! / Britannia, rule the waves! / Britannia never, never, never shall be slaves!" »
• « From Maine to Georgia, British colonists gleefully celebrated the victory and sang the refrain "Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! The British will never, never, never be slaves!" »