glad

She condemned "the tendency to privatise everything" and said she was glad to see other protests in recent weeks over housing costs and a lack of protection for tenants.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

"He had his own cards, but he never got to touch these, I'm glad to say."

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“I’m glad I did because they are stronger than ever,” Perry wrote in an email.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Though I would love to have a house that is mine, I am glad I don’t have to worry about home maintenance and repairs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

I was glad of the hard physical work that drove some of the damp from my bones and for the occasional bite of raw potato when guards were not watching.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

And I’m gladder still that by the end of your letter you realized what question you were really asking.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2021

I was even gladder to see his look of awe, his happy suspension of disbelief in the face of such adult wizardry.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2019

No holdouts, which makes Carroll’s heart even gladder.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2016

I am glad to have finally seen it, but gladder still that my bed is not a bus ride away.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2010

Ranofer was glad to be ignored; gladder still to be safely back at work when a moment later Gebu’s voice rose in an angry bellow directed at Pai.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Across the land this Christmas season, churches old and new, grand or unpretentious, prepare for the gladdest occasion of the Christian calendar.

From Time Magazine Archive

For many an entrepreneurial Pop the gladdest moment of a lifetime is when his No.1 son enters the family firm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Famed in Los Angeles as the gladdest glad-hander of them all, Norris Poulson made the mistake of trying to slug it out with Yorty.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had run over to me and was standing down below with the gladdest face.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

As Eric grew older, there sprang up between them such a comradeship as, even in her gladdest moments of motherhood, Sheila had never foreseen.

From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis

The doctor waved his hand to the Royal Orchestra, who immediately struck up with Jesu Christes Milde Moder—since Dr. Bartholomew’s book had recommended that madmen should be gladded with instruments.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Now, I saw in my dream, that He spake many good words unto them, whereby they were greatly gladded.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

And they must be gladded with instruments of music, and some deal be occupied.'

From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh

Hence I took a thought This was a judgement on me; that my kingdom, Well worthy the best heir o' the world, should not Be gladded in't by me.

From King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

Sithence I writ what goeth afore, have we all been rare gladded by Walter’s coming, which was just when the dusk had fallen.

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

One day she saw below her in the forest a dear gazelle, gladding her with its soft black eye.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce

God safely quit her of her burden, and With gentle travail, to the gladding of Your Highness with an heir!

From King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

Oh, noble is the knotted oak, And sweet the gush of sylvan streams, And good the great sun's gladding beams, The blush of life upon the field, The silent might that mountains wield.

From Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems by George Parsons Lathrop

And God give you to know Christ, and send us a happy meeting in that His blessed habitation, unto the great gladding of your most loving and dutiful daughter, Margery Marnell.

From Mistress Margery by Emily Sarah Holt

God safely quit her of her Burthen, and With gentle Trauaile, to the gladding of Your Highnesse with an Heire    King.

From Henry VIII by William Shakespeare