Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

glad

[glad] / glæd /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

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

Heyler said she and Edythe Broad are also glad that the collection will take up temporary residence in a building designed by Gehry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Was it excessive for Jews to buy land, at fair or often inflated prices, from absentee landlords in Beirut and Damascus who were glad to sell malarial swamps?

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

“I guess I can wait that long. Boy, I’ll be glad when I get a little older.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Nobody is gladder for Rosen, Donoghue, and Engel than constitutional democracy is today.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2022

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 could be gladder to see him this time, since for the moment at least I was not worried about the man.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

The watercourses sing for me their gladdest songs, black as I am.

From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

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

This is their country mode; but I do ensure thee I had been little gladded for leave to kiss the dust; and it doth yet tickle mine ears whensoever I hear it.

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

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

But I find not the angel in any wise gladded with the same.

From Mistress Margery by Emily Sarah Holt

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

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

From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père

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

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

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


Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Just like flashcards, but way more fun

Don't take our word for it. Leave the boring studying behind and join VocabTrainer today. You'll learn even faster and never look back.

Take me to Vocabulary.com