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glad

[glad] / glæd /


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Still, she said she’s glad to have made her laundromat a no-drama establishment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

One item I am very glad my generation was not brought up with is mobile phones.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“Aren’t you all glad he’s on our side?”

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

It’s nice that you’re saying exactly what I feel when I’m writing it, so I’m glad it comes across.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

He’d never been so glad to be having an argument.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

And in the end I'm gladder that I watched it than I would be if it hadn't been made in the first place.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2012

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

I could not be gladder of carrying it.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

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

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

But I'm gladdest of all that you and Ambo are beginning at last to be friends.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

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

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

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

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

The guests be gladded with lutes and harps.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele

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

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

But where the devil were you gladding last night, my young master?

From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père

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


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