How To Use Pleased In A Sentence

I'm pleased I didn't get that job, in a funny sort of way.
So I'm pleased to introduce our first presenter , one of the stars of Traffic , Catherine Zeta - Jones .
I was watching the match in a pub without sound, and I had forgotten about it, so it was not until I got home that I realised that Langer had taken a hat trick, and that was why the West Indian fieldsmen all looked so pleased.
Naturally, her husband was very pleased and only too happy to oblige with the ‘work.’
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His demeanor was that of a person who is far from pleased with the course of events, and the word glum best describes his expression. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
I'm pleased to say that he is now doing well.
The two merchants didn't look entirely pleased to have the players mooching off of their business, but it was obvious to the eyes of an outsider that the music was actually attracting customers.
I was too pleased with my own hard-won epiphany that the film's title is a palindrome to even notice that the credits had started rolling.
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
‘I thought my lads did very well and I was pleased with their effort,’ said Sinnott.
We then walked through a natural arch in the rock, which might have pleased us by its novelty, had the stones, which incumbered our feet, given us leisure to consider it. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
Those of you who remember the lime and ginger scheme will be pleased to hear that it has been redone using damson, with gold trimming.
But rather than pleased, Matyc looked as sour as a Bardek citron. A TIME OF WAR
This process of clarification may not have pleased the ruling classes or the officials of the religious parties.
The motion had particularly pleased Mobuto who was desperate to bring Zimbala back into world affairs.
I didn't mind at all. Indeed, I was pleased.
By the end of their honeymoon the Haskins were only too pleased to find that Multavia did not boast a national airline.
It's not often you can eat the utensils, and the friendly, unobtrusive service saw to it we never wanted for extra injera, so we were pleased. - 1 / 2
I'm pleased to hear about your news.
The neoconservatives, to my complete surprise, were not pleased.
The mountain boys held on to each other laughing, and I wasn't any too pleased, but Carson gave me his slantendicular smile and shrugged. Isabelle
She called her suitor "Isidore:" this, however, she intimated was not his real name, but one by which it pleased her to baptize him Villette
I am specially pleased with; the last being an episodical bogie story about the Bass Rock told there by the Keeper. Vailima Letters
She seemed surprised and not at all pleased to see him.
I returned the coin to Noah, assuring him that I had no further need of it, and he went away well pleased, assured of the protection of the white man's duppy -- the token of the good spirits which he venerates as much as he fears the bugaboos. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
I have to make the most of this good spell of form, and am pleased that we are doing well in Europe.
Pleased to meet you, " he said, shaking my hand.
Even more, I am very pleased do it here in France for the team and all our supporters.
I am pleased to inform you that you have won first prize in this month's competition.
Greg, that if my father were to tell me that he had changed his mind, and paid your brother's debts out of sheer kindness and uncleship, and the rest of it, I should be well pleased. Ralph the Heir
Upon arriving at Scootypoof's place, I was really pleased to be greeted by Popeye the boxer dog and one of his favourite toys.
Football fans will perhaps be pleased to know that the word huddle, from a Germanic verb to do with “crowding together” could it come from a primeval idea of a group hiding from animals or people, or protecting someone or something from being found or seen by others? The English Is Coming!
Your local astronomical society will be pleased to give you further advice and practical help in choosing a suitable telescope or pair of binoculars.
He came to me, just now, so prim, and so pleased A parrot and paroquet The parrot is the finest talker! Sir Charles Grandison
he played the ukulele and the guests were pleased
I am pleased to tell you that your application for the post of Assistant Editor has been successful.
They are his sheep who hear their Master's voice and follow - pleased to do all his will who saves them and keeps them by his grace.
She looks radiant and I am so pleased to hear that she has now married. The Sun
The chiefs left the ship displeased at what they called stingy conduct in the captain, as they were accustomed to receive trifling presents from the traders on the coast. Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River
Peace is particularly pleased that his book has had good reviews from sports writers. Times, Sunday Times
The Governor is pleased to accept the invitation.
In the summer another six or eight had returned from the farm on Cap Tourmente, and eleven arrived in the shallop that so displeased Champlain. Champlain's Dream
The company is more than pleased with the results, although he says they are well aware of Julies flaws, which he mostly attributes to the limitations in the state-of-the-art technology behind Julie. Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us
Although the female operatives were initially encouraged to work as they pleased, they were quickly reprimanded for talking too much.
If Irene had struck me in dancing the 'forlana', why should not I have pleased her in spite of my superiority in age? Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 20: Milan
The succeeding days were devoted to a general reconnaissance of the place; but I must say that Roustchouk, although capital of the pashalic of Silistria, and containing thirty or forty thousand inhabitants, pleased me less than any town of its size that I had seen in the East. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
He was particularly pleased because of Dave being his friend and the playoff was absolutely fantastic.
Most of the women were college graduates, thought highly of Smith, and were pleased that this stranger was so smart.
Are you pleased with the result?
He said 'I am very displeased. The Sun
And now I'm reading John Green's marvelous An Abundance of Katherines, and am pleased to have found another child for whom fables were not all that: "if only he'd known that the story of the tortoise and the hare is about more than a tortoise and a hare, he might have saved himself considerable trouble. Whither Jackie Paper?
Baxter admitted he was not pleased with the previous day's training, where too many players showed their poor finishing during a lengthy session devoted to shooting practice, in which he tried to sharpen matters up in front of goal.
Fans of her earlier work will be pleased to learn that her new songs retain her distinctive sultry vocal delivery. Times, Sunday Times
The man's face is set in a displeased grimace, his brow furrowed in certain displeasure.
If the council wishes to take action I will be quite pleased because I will really raise a stink about this.
It pleased me no end, trying to make amends for many years of imposed suppression.
He is particularly pleased that the Government has exceeded its target to build 60 per cent of new housing on brownfield land. Times, Sunday Times
And you could argue that the team seemed pleased with mediocrity. The Sun
And once she'd caught his displeased look when he looked at her and her child.
Except for the gym which I have joined to circumnavigate both my bung shin (which is getting less bung I'm pleased to report) and winter.
The media was pleased to receive the calendar for next year's F1 circus nice and early.
She seemed pleased at our success.
I'm pleased to say that I'm now the proud possessor of a driving licence!
Gokool refused to prostrate himself at his feet while he should put his foot on his head; for which his gooroo was displeased ... Life of William Carey
I'm pleased that you've made such an auspicious start to the new term.
I'm pleased to hear about your news.
She was as pleased as Punch about the news.
We were really pleased for Chopper to score against his old team. The Sun
He was displeased about the whole affair.
I have been very pleased with my experience as a bio major.
William was pleased that he had not been sick, although a few of the prisoners had spent most of the journey with their head over the side retching their empty stomachs out.
We are pleased to learn from your letter...
I was very pleased with my eye make-up, and I only used two colours this time - black and gold.
Geary was pleased with the performance, and although there are several players nursing injuries the manager will be pleased to welcome back his talisman, Jimmy Hedges.
By which means it is, yet by my courtesy, that scarce any kind of men live more voluptuously or with less trouble; as believing that Christ will be well enough pleased if in their mystical and almost mimical pontificality, ceremonies, titles of holiness and the like, and blessing and cursing, they play the parts of bishops. In Praise of Folly
I am pleased that at long last the Executive seems to recognise that it is a very effective predator of the capercaillie.
I was pleased to hear you've been promoted.
Television stations were initially pleased by this alphabet soup.
We are very pleased and happy to have him on board. Times, Sunday Times
By and by, when in her turn, back in the festally decorated house, she came to give the newly married pair her felicitations, she was well pleased to see Stuart quite himself again, smiling at her with the proud look of the bridegroom from whom no human being can wrest the prize he has just secured. Under the Country Sky
Gwinn was pleased with the results.
This brings the word "cocktease" to new levels, none of which I'd ever planned on ascending nor am I pleased to have done so. Gawker
One fella on the bus seemed particularly pleased with himself and not unjustly the crowd called him a johnny.
I was pleased to have several readers tell me they enjoyed reading my piece about the heavy horse stallions and the routes they followed in days gone by.
Unable to get back to sleep, I headed down to breakfast, feeling groggy but pathetically pleased with myself.
The other Indians were displeased at the conduct of the Natchez, imagining they had forwarded the term agreed on, in order to make them ridiculous, and proposed to take vengeance the first opportunity, not knowing the true cause of the precipitation of the Natchez. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
Nurse Jamieson had got on a favourite topic, and would have expatiated long enough, for she was a professed admirer of masculine beauty, but there was something which displeased the boy in her last simile; so he cut the conversation short, by asking whether she knew exactly how much money his grandfather had left with Dr. Gray for his maintenance. The Surgeon's Daughter
She frowns softly, more of a piteous look than a displeased one.
He was so pleased with his efforts that he described the league as ‘all our work’.
I was also pleased by the distinct lack of annoyingly goofy, stupid characters.
Bacher professed himself pleased with the Indian tour.
As its main banker, we are pleased to have supported its rapid growth from the beginning. Times, Sunday Times
The council are pleased with the results of bringing ordinary citizens in on local library planning.
Tom was only too pleased to come.
Pleased to meet you. Plsd to meet u, too.
Corp. ( "Coro" or the "Company") (TSX: COP) is pleased to announce the closing of the previously announced non-brokered private placement to raise gross proceeds of up to $4,500,000. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
Of all my second viewing fluctuations, I'm most pleased to say that the cast entire fares much better when not jumping off the screen like flimsy cardboard cutouts, which is to say that I no longer feel so ungodly embarrassed for the lot of them. Avatar: Notes on a Second Viewing
By the end of their honeymoon the Haskins were only too pleased to find that Multavia did not boast a national airline.
Watson, however, was pleased with his effort as he was the only rider to give Cook a run for his money over roads he knows well.
He was especially pleased with some excellent setting and blocking in all three sets.
She was starting to feel a bit vexed and it displeased her greatly.
Most of the time, however, the two rivals were amiable and pleased with each other's achievements.
Snickers is my hearing dog and has been on duty since mid-2002, she will be pleased to see many of her colleagues out there so she's not alone! nancy melchiorre Franken's first goal: Dogs for vets
He also painted a picture of a shady figure who spent his time as he pleased. Times, Sunday Times
He who pleased everybody died before he was born.
I was really pleased when he said how well I'd done, because he isn't known for flattery.
Three hours later the woodshed had acquired a doorcase in strict neoclassical style, with pilasters, triglyphs, and a cornice, and he was looking positively pleased with himself, as he rolled off up the hill to face the music.
It is what some are pleased to call jugglery," he answered, with a light, hard laugh. Can Such Things Be?
Television stations were initially pleased by this alphabet soup.
But even so, I'm pleased and flattered, and very slightly embarrassed.
God is pleased when we approach Him with unwavering faith.
Her insolence greatly displeased the judge.
On the one hand I'm slightly flattered by the attention and pleased that the writing here is giving someone pleasure.
Walter Collier offered his services as an escort, only too pleased to find an excuse to avoid playing rounders. GOODBYE CURATE
I'm especially pleased that he's been such a strong and cogent voice on Social Security since we are sure to face a new tide of bamboozlement in the week ahead.
You will be pleased to know that we have accepted your offer.
The lord of cuckoldom and its surrounding lands, who is a strange lord, managed things so well, that madame was only conversing with her lord lover at the time that her lord spouse was talking to the constable and the king; at which he was pleased, and so was his wife -- a case of concord rare in matrimony. Droll Stories — Volume 3
She is quite pleased with her knowledge about courts when she is able to pick out the jury, twelve animals and birds who are busy writing on their slates.
Brumbies coach David Nucifora was pleased with the performance of his team, especially the forwards, who where able to get on top of the heavier Bulls pack in scrums.
We shall be pleased to have you informed us of your financial condition and business standing.
People are pleased that an underdog has come through adversity. Times, Sunday Times
Jane is also pleased that she has been able to turn her business venture into a multigenerational family affair, with her husband and daughter heavily involved in day-to-day operations.
They were none too pleased to be pipped by just one point in the final round.
It is a curious turn around from the days when bondholders pleased to be bought out and were driving to drawing lots!
She wasn't sure if it had been the kick to the head or if she had just misheard him, but suddenly the baron looked entirely too pleased to see her.
But the rather malleable populace here seems to be quite pleased at this governmental largesse.
We were so pleased when our team got through to the last part of the competition.
They would discuss what her next assignment would be and she would do as she pleased. Times, Sunday Times
Corpus Media Labs, a Hyderabad based media solutions arm of Corpus group of companies, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Denver, CO based company PQ Engineering, Inc (PQE) in a part cash and part stock deal. IndiaPRwire - Press/News Releases
All parties seem to have something to contribute, and each seem pleased with the final cut of the film.
"We are pleased to advise we are happy to offer cover in this matter.
I was feeling quite pleased with myself for being in the right place at the right time and for not minding getting dirty.
Strange though it may sound, I was pleased it was over.
She'll be pleased to hear that she can leave hospital tomorrow.
I was pleased to hear you arrived home safely.
We are so pleased to hear mummy and son are both doing well as well as daddy. The Sun
Himself in Himself, after a fashion which we can neither describe nor conceive, predestinating all things, formed them as He pleased, bestowing harmony on all things, and assigning them their own place, and the beginning of their creation. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
He sipped at a snifter of cognac, relaxed and well pleased with the turn of events. CORMORANT
He seemed to be pleased by this newly minted vehicle.
We are pleased that the problems have been resolved.
Wherfore we, wretched and miserable synners, render unto thee most humble and hartie thankes, that yt hath pleased thee to call us home to thy folde by thy Fatherly correction at this present, wheras in our prosperitie and libertie we dyd neglect thy graces offered unto us. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
Liza looked none too pleased to have been roped into this either.
I'm really pleased with your work this term.
We wanted swifts, but are pleased nonetheless to have finished up with sparrows and starlings. Times, Sunday Times
We are pleased to note the overall Oxford triumph, sealed in thrilling fashion as Craig Heasman threw the winning dart to once again seal glory for the men and women of the Pelican.
I am therefore pleased to see that serious consideration is being given to the provision of a skate park.
We are pleased to answer your letter of August 18, 1998.
I'll be only too pleased to help them out with any queries.
Although pleased to be kept on, I felt unwanted and unvalued.
Yes, they should be very pleased with themselves for that.
In fact, it may not have had an author, because people added and subtracted stanzas and modified phrasing as they pleased.
It pleased me to know that he was a very good conversationalist, and was capable of holding intelligent conversation for more than two seconds.
In addition to the usual range of baked goods and fresh produce, they are now pleased to offer home-made potato cakes and boxty every Friday.
A while ago I learned to engrave copper, and I enjoyed doing it so much I was also pleased with myself for having acquired an anachronistic and highly specialized skill that I engraved every hard surface I could find. Brian D. Cohen: Things
They were simply pleased that the budget airline had chosen to use their local airport.
I refer to your recent application and interview and am pleased to offer you the post of editor.
My step-daughter and son-in-law seem very pleased with the public school attended by my six-year-old first grade twin grandchildren. Alan Singer: No Longer Waiting for "Superman"
I am particularly pleased to have seen these relationships mature and strengthen.
They're both really neat people - I'm pleased to have made a connection there, and I hope we keep in touch.
The special effects pleased him, but the happenings, centring on a lost heir and a throne, were those of an historic costume drama. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
I awake feeling physically wrecked but pleased to see that our quinzhee still stands. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Melrose, however, will be not be pleased with themselves for allowing Aberdeen to score four tries in the last half-hour after having built a 34-0 lead.
We bought the table sight unseen and were pleased to find it was perfect for our kitchen.
I'm pleased to make your acquaintance.
I'm really pleased and frankly relieved to report," begins Glenn Kenny, "that, a couple of snippable minutes and some dubious music choices aside (that Cake song about the jacket is one thing, but a cover of Howard Jones's 'No One Is To Blame' is pushing it), writer/director Adrienne Shelly's final feature Waitress is a delight, a refreshing comedy that mixes a bunch of familiar ingredients in offbeat ways that payoff every time, much in the way that its title character Jenna (the fabulous Keri Russell) blends, say, blackberries with bittersweet chocolate in her universally beloved pies. GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Waitress.
You resent, it seems, what you are pleased to term my affectation of intimacy, and you beg for a style of greater respect in any future communications. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891
I was pleased to hear you arrived home safely.
We come away well-pleased with ourselves, perhaps, but seldom have we taken the least delight in others' efforts.
Julia was pregnant, and very pleased to be so; the only stress she suffered was Marius’s henlike concern for her. The First Man in Rome
It earned a word of praise from me, which pleased my companion, though the little town was poorly lit and somnolent. THE TARTAN RINGERS
I could hardly keep the smile off my face, I was so pleased to be amongst friends in a strange country.
It's used as an expression of pleased astonishment, or at least it was when I was a boy.
Her mother was pleased that she chose a college close to home.
She didn't seem over pleased when I asked her to wait.
‘Good, good,’ he says, obviously pleased with the pyrotechnics.
Would you have the gauger's wife, sister?" inquired Blanche, with a face of renewed perplexity: "I think my dear Lady Maria would be pleased if I bid the dame - for the gauger is a good friend of his Lordship - hot-headed, they say, but that does not make him the worse - and his dame takes it kindly to be noticed. Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
He was pleased to have the Commissioner's blessing, the official imprimatur. MAMBO
My Birthday, on Monday, was brilliant - the kids got me cashews and Belgian chocs and were so excited and pleased with themselves that I felt all loved and snuggly.
The Governor is pleased to accept the invitation.
I am pleased to announce the enlargement of the History Department by three new teachers.
They had every reason to feel pleased with themselves.
She actually seemed pleased to see him: most of her visitors she merely tolerated.
Queen's Majesty is not pleased that I should molest her Highness with any more of my colourable letters, which, although they be termed colourable, yet not offending the Queen's Majesty, I must say for myself that it was the plain truth, even as I desire to be saved afore Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
He who pleased everybody died before he was born.
The mugs and plates, I was pleased to notice, were made of leadless glaze. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
I was pleased to inform him that actually, I do have a full bike licence.
Well, we're certainly very pleased that it has come.
He is pleased and relieved, of course, but fanfare gratifies him less than the hard grind itself. Times, Sunday Times
Before meeting in Washington on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Swiss counterpart, Micheline Calmy-Rey, said they were pleased with the preliminary agreement.
The position of the candelabrum displeased me, and outreaching my hand with difficulty, rather than disturb my slumbering valet, I placed it so as to throw its rays more fully upon the book.
We are pleased to offer you 120,000 cotton poplin blouses at US $ 16.80 each, FOB Xingang.
What we are pleased to call "prevailing business sentiment" is a complex hydra-headed beast.
We are pleased to answer your letter of August 18, 1998.
I was pleased to hear you arrived home safely.
You'll be pleased to know relationships - especially with your own creative inspiration - are more responsive to play than to work right now.
This little gentilesse pleased, and atoned for the popery of my house, which was not serious enough for Madame de Boufflers, who is Montmorency, et du sang du premier Chritien; and too serious for Madame Dusson, who is a Dutch Calvinist. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
I am pleased we have a young squad and we coped under some pressure. The Sun
'Are you pleased?' 'I'm thrilled.'
I have spoken to a number of people within the sector since the material was released and I am very pleased to hear that the research has been generating very positive discussions in staffrooms around the country.

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