become cheerful
Example Sentences
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Every now and then Milton’s optimism would sway my mother and she would become cheerful for a day or two.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
If anything she had become cheerful and certainly as human as any girl he had known.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
If these birds, viz., swans and cranes and Satapatras and Chashas utter auspicious cries, and all the able-bodied combatants become cheerful, these are regarded as indications of future success.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
In sleep all weariness is laid aside, and we become cheerful again, and rise in the morning fresh and well.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
The sun glinted among the bottles of Unfailing Lotion in the window, and everything in the world seemed to have relaxed and become cheerful.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
