How To Use Happily In A Sentence

Happily, some men want not to abase towards Mecca five times in every day...' A battery of winds sprang up. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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When they met she was happily married to her first husband Laurie Brown, a member of Manchester United's back-room staff.
In the trees a pair of wood pigeons churred away happily.
We chatted happily in the lobby.

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Katherine found herself smiling happily as if the compliment were directed at her own home.
My son seems much cheerier now, happily, although being me I worry that he is just putting a good face on things so as not to worry me. Fragments From A Week « Tales from the Reading Room
Today he's happily munching a cheese sandwich and talking about wild swimming. Times, Sunday Times
They play urban refugees - an unhappily married man and a coffee-shop girl burdened by her ill father - on the threshold of potential love.
For instance, many people who can't digest cow-milk-based products can happily assimilate stuff crafted from goat's milk (which is lower in lactose).
MOST people would happily live on the Moon if possible in 50 years. The Sun
How many things are necessary for thee to know, that thou, enjoying this comfort, mayest live and die happily? A Death in the Family « Unknowing
It suited her to be behind the scenes, where she could be a part of the artistic excitement but bask happily out of the spotlight.
Things will happen. You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse. React positively. Live happily. RVM
An entirely free public service, all you need to do is call her up and Geneviève will happily stop by to scope out your crib and offer suggestions on how you can better safeguard your digs from thieves.
Artichokes were great suppertime treats in our household, and happily, we lived near the self-proclaimed Artichoke Capital of the World, Castroville. The English Is Coming!
But he's happily married to Stacy Creamer , a world-class triathlete and a two-time world champion in the duathlon, a running and cycling race. In It for the Long Run
I then wandered down Whitehall, passed the great Offices of State, to view the Mother of Parliaments and ponder the fact that 70 years on Britain has a Government led by a Prime Minister never elected to that Office, who has refused to consult the People for fear they oppose him and happily transfered that once so precious prized sovereignty to a new European Superpower. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
She is now happily ensconced in a new relationship. Times, Sunday Times
However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued unhappily together among the ox-teams and canvas-hooded wagons on the slope, commenting sourly on the frivolity of the dance. Una Of The Hill Country 1911
How likely is it that a twenty-first-century music giving priority to ‘new classical’ virtues will sit happily with forms of writing which retain ‘modernist’ perspectives on multivalence?
In the difficult job of getting through one's life happily, she had made a bad start.
We also shrimped for hours in tidal pools, sploshing and chatting happily as the tide turned. Times, Sunday Times
Happily, children are resilient and this sort of familial chaos will have no effect on them.
They chattered away happily for a while.
I was happily floating around to different groups all night, talking, chit-chatting, catching up with some old faces and taking silly pictures.
But Darwin, happily insomnious with his vision of South America rising on swelling magma, thought this notion of collapsed lakes small thinking. Wired Top Stories
Unhappily, we fear that such a consummation is still far distant. Disunion in the United States
Happily the soap is also infused with peppermint and citrus scents so you don't end up smelling like a jar of coffee beans. Start your day right, with--
She happily green-lighted zoning changes to allow a few small cottages to be demolished and replaced by impressive mansions.
Megan happily pulled out the sheet of paper that her timetable, class list and corresponding teacher list was printed on.
More happily, the "stolen children"—a narrative element Ms. Tharp devised to give her take on MacDonald's tale further dance opportunities—are outfitted winningly in togs that might be off the rack of a local boutique. The Kids Are All Right
She married the prince and they lived happily ever after.
And one would expect, therefore, that a progressive and systematically thoughtful government would move heaven and earth to rescue the nation from the carnage which AIDS is taking, and unhappily, that is not the case, although in every other country in southern Africa I have visited, they are moving heaven and earth to turn things around. CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2006
Next day it was done, with baby Jesus smiling happily and waving from the sleigh. Part the Eighth: The Meaning of Christmas « Unknowing
Our southern ally's loyalty to her beautiful "unredeemed" provinces, and her claim, which all right-minded Englishmen (I include myself) most heartily endorse, to dominate the historically Italian waters of the Adriatic, happily proved too strong for a machine-made sympathy for Berlin based on nothing better than a superficial resemblance between the histories of Piedmont and Prussia, and a record of nominal alliance with powers whose respect for paper treaties was always fairly apparent. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917
There is a class of persons (happily not quite so numerous as formerly) who think it enough if a person assents undoubtingly to what they think true, though he has no knowledge whatever of the grounds of the opinion, and could not make a tenable defence of it against the most superficial objections. On Liberty
In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
Lawrence nodded, smiling happily.
How dare you call me a kindred spirit as I happily, boozily answer all the questions "b" and then suggest yoga to me in the analysis. Today's Quiz: Are You Batshit Crazy?
Highly romantic courtships don't guarantee living happily ever after, but they are associated with a longer road to divorce.
When they stopped by the Inn, Debbye had asked Wendy about the possibility of some nut meringues, and the vixen had happily supplied her with four dozen of the crunchy delicacies.
Happily, the expansions and recombinations of American businesses over the century chronicled here have had far more positive results than this author would lead us to believe.
They always had been fond of each other and they lived very happily as man and wife. Heidi
Happily, by "gunplay" they writer didn't mean, "What's the upside of random shootings? Sharp as a Marble
Winter sweet, Chimonanthus praecox, will grow quite happily on chalk or limestone soils and fill the garden with spicy winter fragrance.
Happily one of the rabbis featured in this documentary advocates a sneaky line of defence.
Antonio de Ciudad Real happily notes the day, in Tratado curioso, when he realized that he was finally free from quartan fever (cuartanas), which had plagued him for more than three years. 64 Intermittent fevers like these were probably malarial, and these two cases could very well have originated in Spain, as their carriers had only recently arrived from the Peninsula. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
The baby sat in his high-chair,burbling happily.
He ambled over to the nearest tree - happily some metres from where I stood hidden, and turned towards the tower.
Happily, we don't have to invent this mythical band as the Sadies fit the bill pretty neatly.
Opposite this doorway is a small granary that is on staddle stones and is the perfect resting place for the Labrador dog that happily ran up to lick our hands!
Dave smiled as he watched her bounce happily up to the counter.
Lionel's inheritance also disappears; after separation, hardship, estrangement, and disinheritance, the Tarrants are happily reconciled, but live separately in London.
Happily or unhappily, depending on which way you view it, the blonde in question is likely to be the company's yet-to-be-launched new brew - an oak-aged pale ale.
The baby drooled happily in response to a sudden breeze.
So by rights we should be in the midst of spring, with lambs leaping, the smell of dew hanging in the air and the sight of rowers happily plodding home from the Cherwell.
She told them that nobody yet knew to whom the Will would ascribe them, but that if they came to her she'd happily give them away. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
It drives me crazy that right-on activists who would go nuts if they heard people use race or gender based slurs can happily joke about bogans.
Reaching across my stomach, he stroked the kitten's fur as she continued to purr happily at the attention.
The kids, meanwhile, munched happily on a pizza (frozen variety), pasta with tomato sauce and chips with a garlic mayonnaise dip.
I can happily watch Grahame in anything, so I decided to sit there and watch this oater while going through my morning routine (in the end, I ended up watching roughly three quarters). 2009 August : Scrubbles.net
He and others: while again Mirabeau, we say, is cast forth from it, happily incapable of being replaced; and rests now, irrecognisable, reburied hastily at dead of night, in the central 'part of the Churchyard Sainte-Catherine, in the Suburb Saint-Marceau,' to be disturbed no further. The French Revolution
We were told to keep our seats because the show wasn't over until ABBA sang and unbidden, the audience started clapping along happily, as a virtual mini-ABBA concert was performed at the end.
At a gloriously air-conditioned shop halfway up the main drag, I could have happily browsed for hours, because it was so blissfully cool.
When I left the girls they disappointingly still seemed to be getting on well, happily sitting on the kerbside by the gutter.
He felt like he was drowning in them… dying happily in the blissful sea of her soul.
That casts a slight shadow over the group's defensive qualities, but the interest bill is covered a comfortable 8 times and the group is happily returning capital to shareholders through share buy-backs.
He has this zaftig lady friend who is always bugging him to quit and live happily ever after.
She still tries to maintain the fiction that she is happily married.
While many happy human-animal relationships have begun with pet shop animals, there are many others which have ended unhappily.
Happily, Rowan's efforts are as edgy and buzzing with street life as the argot he describes.
The object of 'Proserpina' is to make him happily cognizant of the common aspect of Greek and English flowers; under the term Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
To see him at work you would think he was a mild-mannered postal worker, happily idling along on a red postie bike as he delivers the mail.
Why regret that I lived miserably yesterday. Rather, why not commit and resolve to live happily today. RVM
A baya of enterprise, energy and skill may be the proud builder of four nests in a colony, each happily occupied with a female on eggs.
Happily she was winded rather than wounded and suffered no more than bruising.
Today he's happily munching a cheese sandwich and talking about wild swimming. Times, Sunday Times
There will be no more war and everyone will live happily ever after.
They clump up happily over a few years in moist soil and you can divide them with ease. Times, Sunday Times
Edward was a year old then, and we were happily ensconced on the south coast.
In this he carefully laid Tess, and kissing her lips, sighed deeply and happily.
Since their inception in 1977, the name of the game for The Mekons has been experimentation and excursion, and they have even happily embraced the 'folkies'. Tourdates Unsigned Chart
Becoming Speaker of the House of Commons is happily no longer so precarious, but it certainly has its difficulties.
‘That's nothing,’ cut in Darryl happily, cheerfully poking his brother with his fork.
They'll quite happily squander a whole year's savings on two weeks in the sun.
If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Walden
Overall, the issue is happily devoid of many of the ditzier features that have crept into business magazines in recent years -- no pointless lists of the best this or the worst that -- and, mercifully, no attempt to get you, the reader, to start blogging, tweeting, Facebooking, linking or job hunting right now! Yvette Kantrow: Economist sans buts
Fresh research suggests that, while people will happily put up with voluntary restrictions on movement, they balk at the idea of compulsory quarantine. Times, Sunday Times
A petrol engine will spin happily, in some cases to 8,000 or 9,000 revs per minute.
In my garden I am happily growing the common primrose, cultivated cowslips, and primulas.
Grandparents were happily bragging about their grandkids.
Its mane and forelock were thick and black as well, and its deep brown eyes stared happily at Tam as she got the bridle from a hook in the stall.
With a squeal of excitement, she dove into her calfskin tote and snatched out her cell, her face lighting up happily.
Happily, designers continue to plunder the her archive with a riot of florals that look more flirty than frumpy.
Up until recently, it wasn't this bad (with EVERYTHING now seemingly going through the dogana) and one could happily receive at least certain things without having to pay.
Happily, the technology is now doing its job, collecting data methodically and with exquisite sensitivity.
The 57-year-old says she is still happily unmarried and child-free.
At this point I am taking a coffee break as I retch once again at the thought of whale blubber sitting unhappily in my oesophagus.
The lucky quartet have now been happily rehoused in conditions much more lavish than they were used to.
Happily, I then realised that the items I had to post were not in any way urgent: it would matter not one iota if none of them reached the addressees for a week or two.
There they were, merrily describing their 16-hour working days while simultaneously claiming to be happily married.
Newspaper editors happily confirm that Churchill stories make great copy, especially since in the UK one cannot sue for libel on behalf of the dead.
SUE Millington looks every bit the contented mum as she plays happily with her sons.
Parents let their offspring roam the streets quite happily, not knowing what they are up to.
Gluttony, Orson Welles once said ruefully, is not a secret vice and unhappily the solution to weight loss is also blindingly obvious - whatever you eat, eat less.
Callie was the one who had jumped ship -- and was now happily coupling up with a married lover who was fleeing the wife he'd "outgrown". Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Redefining Marriage
You can happily let people assemble their own. Times, Sunday Times
He says nothing about the Dutch SP Arty bty that has been happily thumping the s***t out of baddies, sometimes in sp of Canadians. Daimnation!: Afstan: The sainted Dutch, or Mr Smith goes to Uruzgan
Happily I got a chance to work out the new, bigger disher (don't ask me what size I got, I already forget I am mortified to admit) on those Double Chocolate Chip Cookies I posted about this past Tuesday. Archive 2009-09-01
It was Sunday and we mingled happily with the local families enjoying the weekend. Times, Sunday Times
Had my dad been a pothunter, I would have been one too, happily booting a shovel into the ground right next to him. NPR Topics: News
They trooped to the stalls put up by Annapoorna and Elite hotels and happily dug into fish biriyani, fish fried rice, fish with chapatti and just good ol’ fish.
Dogs and little children romped happily in the garden.
Myra happily drove over, and within ten minutes the two were seated on lounge chairs in his bedroom, listening to a couple of CDs Myra had brought.
At the party Lillian Rose, wearing the rosebud dress bought by Yvonne, gurgled happily in her cot.
He perched happily on a hillside and watched the sea.
Norrie, perspiring happily, obliged with an equally wonderful rendition of `Dead Ringer '. TICKLED PINK
'Goodbye,' carolled Boris happily.
We also shrimped for hours in tidal pools, sploshing and chatting happily as the tide turned. Times, Sunday Times
The story ended unhappily for all parties concerned: Harris was disgraced and his reputation exploded, but the forgers were also hounded out of Australia.
The birds also eat bugs and weeds, they happily devour food scraps such as wilted lettuce and carrot tops, and their manure can be composted into garden fertilizer. Lame Duck, Duck!
We stand in silence watching more people join the line as others leave happily with their cones and cups blissed out, stressless, and not quite ready to go home.
This exchange was repeated several times till I poured neat gin into a tumbler and she glugged it happily.
We did see loads of deer though, and right in the township happily wandering the streets trying to con food off people.
Disturbed by Lewis's examination of her newborn, the heifer mooed unhappily.
I have English Breakfast tea in a blue and white porcelain cup - not an austere Chinese willows weeping vessel, but an Italian blue flowers happily dancing on white type ceramic curvy cup.
My husband and I have been happily married for 27 years and are known to be certified insane.
It did not work so happily with his spoken wish for a freeze of Israeli settlements; and he has seen the word falter on the verge of the deed once more, in the wish for a comprehensive health care bill before the summer or before Thanksgiving. David Bromwich: The Afghanistan Parenthesis [UPDATED]
As Annie dished out the curry and the salad bowl went around the table, Meg chattered happily about the book she'd been reading. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 1: SO MOTE IT BE
She bounced after him happily.
They post authoritatively on topics like media coverage of health issues and the use and abuse of statistics, and happily their quantitative bent is accompanied by a joy in language, particularly of the so-bad-it's-good variety. Archive 2009-03-01
`This is the life,' said Dee, happily, sipping her Chardonnay. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
The results showed that the women in unhappy relationships and the women who remained emotionally hung up on their ex-husbands had decidedly weaker immune responses than the women who were in happier relationships (or were happily out of them). Is There a Health Advantage to Being Married? | Impact Lab
On the beach, pina colada, happily married, in the Premier League again, another England cap – what a hat-trick that would be, the Wolverhampton Wanderers winger said. Matt Jarvis' hopes for happy ending hinge on Switzerland and safety
The reason he gave was as follows: if the long-eared innocent animal from the interior came to the prairie and saw the horses, it would think it had met its cousins and would happily rush over.
Happily did he write epics according to ancient rule; no one was impressed.
According to the medical team, this thickening, known as palmar fascitis, could be linked to cancer and further tests revealed an ovarian mass that, happily, was successfully treated with chemotherapy. Healthbolt
I perch happily on a stool, poking gleefully at a small aquarium with a few brightly colored fish in it.
As I thus sate, these and other sighs had so fully possest my soul, that I thought as the Poet has happily exprest it: The Compleat Angler
I would stay at home to raise them and live happily ever after.
Making a simple seperate feed for each supported device format will make life alot easier and speed up development of the in creasing amount of netowrk capable devices which will soon be happily downloading your favourite show as you walk along the hight street. Why the backchannel is bad for RSS « Scripting News Annex
As we chatted, his infant son burbled happily in the background.
Their suspect was a mystery man: a quiet, happily married man with no enemies.
So buy a few lightweight cashmere or wool knits in these colours now and you will be happily wearing them through to spring and summer.
It burns quite happily underwater, or soaked in foam, it contains its own oxidiser. Archive 2007-02-01
Others splashed happily in the water, swimming and having fun.
Happily this year 's Proms are championing him. Times, Sunday Times
He is happily settled with third wife Gladys and their two children.
If so, I'll happily settle into middle age and grump at the advertising people pandering to those young tykes with no respect.
Inside a house at Farm Road, Hyde, the collection of young adults, blacks, whites and greys had been happily breeding unchecked.
The Devil is unhappily dead, in that international bibliopolic province, and little hope of his reviving for some time; whereupon this is what Squire Appleton does. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
She is happily married to an Irish nabob, Eamon, whose Midas touch makes even his goyishness forgivable.
She is already happily donning a tutu. Times, Sunday Times
The children played happily in the sand.
He will happily take 800 a month in benefits but what does he give in return? The Sun
She was a large lady, happily married with three kids, without a chemical trace of inhibition in her body.
What is therefore happening with these particular ads is that the sniffer used to detect browser type is finding two browsers and happily serving two ads at once, thus busting the margins.
Unhappily, there was one man in the present first class who had managed to remain in the Academy in spite of conduct which would have "bilged Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home
I was happily floating around to different groups all night, talking, chit-chatting, catching up with some old faces and taking silly pictures.
Happily racing is seldom hit by thuggish behaviour. The Sun
Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion. This week's new singles
And they all lived happily ever after.
But while happily conceding all these claims, I should still want to attribute the particular spell of her work to another grace. The Times Literary Supplement
The parrots were released, and have thrived ever since -- happily munching down on the berry kernels of the cedar trees which line our streets.
Political parties across Australia are chock-full of people of who would happily sell their souls for a seat in one or other of the nation's parliaments.
I was working with cracking people, was happily married, life seemed pretty gorgeous.
It's computer-graphics with bright colors, so it looks a bit like some of these recent Fairytale pictures (Shrek, Happily Never After,) and it tells the story of a boy named Alex who grew up spending his nights in dreamland, who then hasn't dreamed in eight years. The Dreamland Chronicles
The two communities exist happily side by side.
While officials happily turned a blind eye to cyberporn, they could also be bribed, in an election year, by Rabinder's political enemies -- and bribed once again, as it happens, by his mother, an influential politician -- to secure his release. StarTribune.com rss feed
The edge of the ice had started to melt, creating a narrow stream where some of the birds were happily preening, flapping showers of droplets into the air.
As far as I am aware, they are a happily married couple.
For they, and they only, can say as the Poet has happily exprest it. The Compleat Angler
This is a beach where 'textiles' and nudists have mingled quite happily together for years.
I was laughing happily and she was smiling like an angel.
It is difficult, too, to see how such an approach could be happily integrated into a balanced curriculum.
Happily, Parks also has good judgment and fine people skills.
Giovanni sighed, smiling happily, which added color to his ashen cheeks.
Dont nobody know what happened except chris brown rihanna and whoever was with them at that time so people can stop talking all that mess about chris brown even though he shouldn ` t have hit her in the first place and just wait to see what she does cause she so sprung that she might drop the charges and they go live happily ever after. Chris Brown & Rihanna Moving In Together
She smiled happily as she approached us, and despite our disheveled appearance, we managed to kneel.
He prances through the casinos with scantily clad showgirls draped on each arm (although he is happily married).
There are excuses: which one of us would happily challenge a group of teenagers - and who is to judge what is horseplay and what is more sinister?
Yet the two of them seemed to be working together quite happily. Times, Sunday Times
Happily some entrepreneurial locals awaited exhausted tourists and for $7.50 we galumphed our way by horseback to our car.
He'd just had his bath, and was bouncing around happily in nice fresh pyjamas.
You can happily let people assemble their own. Times, Sunday Times
Colombine rejects Harlequin, and she and Pierrot live happily ever after.
In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
At this moment he was playing with a toy tractor quite happily, making his noises.
Even including off-the-track excursions we were usually at our destination, happily sipping a huge mug of beer in the square, by late afternoon.
Roberta does not have a television and will not watch films on video, whereas Eric will happily watch his favourites until the tapes disintegrate.
I was the romantic female character that would fall in love and live happily ever after.
When the princess saw him, she loved him too, and they were very happily married.
Happily, I discovered a cool pair of strappy shoes in my closet.
When will they leave the ordinary motorist alone to happily bimble along without having to keep one eye on the road and one on the cameras?
But she soon relaxed her grip to wave happily at the skiers below as they circled. The Sun
They happily collaborate with the elite in the richer and more powerful states.
A man with the face of a dog smiled at her from the painting, his tongue lolling out happily over his business suit.
I absentmindedly gnawed on some fries and chicken fingers while Patrick munched happily on his salad.
He has grown-up children from that, and is now happily married for a second time with a young son, Jamie.

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