glad

"Of course I'm glad that we're getting more national interest in wildfires," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

“It’s a very serious safety issue, so I’m glad they made this change,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

I felt I was in a place I felt ready to have more ownership of it and make that bet and I’m really glad it paid off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

“I’m glad I can do more with the people I love,” Ji said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Jonah was glad that Chip could still show some sense of humor, that he hadn’t totally crossed the line into insanity.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

I was glad that Polly had found his proper place in the world but gladder still that it was not with us.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

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

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

She liked to wear it as a reminder to herself of many things that she desired never to forget, even in the gladdest and most festive moment.

From Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time by Agnes Maule Machar

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

This news so gladded the heart of Corydon, that he should not be put out of his farm, that putting off his shepherd's bonnet, he did her all the reverence that he might.

From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Edward Chauncey Baldwin

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

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

Let me think of building castles in Spain, my imagination will forge me commodities and afford means 164and delights wherewith my mind is really tickled and essentially gladded.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

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

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

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

From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père

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