CHEER in a Sentence

Learn CHEER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
280 example sentences for CHEER, such as:
1. A fierce cheer was their response.
2. Good luck, good health, hood cheer.
3. I wrote that song just to cheer myself up.
4. It seems to cheer him to mention the subject.
5. The audience rose bodily to cheer the speaker.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CHEER
cheer
 v.  cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful
 v.  give encouragement to
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She remained gloomily in her room until afternoon and then the sight of the returning picnickers with wagons piled high with pine boughs, vines and ferns did not cheer her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  A hundred voices took it up, sang it, shouted it like a cheer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  But suddenly the Home Guard gave a cheer and it was taken up by the other uniformed guests.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  The whole town had turned out to see them off and they stood, close packed, under the wooden awnings of the stores on Peachtree Street and tried to cheer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  Everyone looked cheerful even if the cheer was strained.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  You are just saying that to try to cheer me up.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  But for all her encouragement and cheer, there was a queer dead look in his eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  You are on the verge of what is vulgarly called a 'crying jag' and so I shall change the subject and cheer you up by telling you some news that will amuse you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
9  Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
10  A fierce cheer was their response.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
11  If we bend down our eyes, the dark vale shows her mouldy soil; but if we lift them, the bright sun meets our glance half way, to cheer.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
12  The abounding good cheer of these English whalers is matter for historical research.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
13  Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
14  It seems to cheer him to mention the subject.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
15  The line fell slowly forward like a toppling wall, and, with a convulsive gasp that was intended for a cheer, the regiment began its journey.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  We approach the end of the year with the economy slowing and little sign of cheer.
2  The audience rose bodily to cheer the speaker.
3  My dog came and nuzzled my foot to try and cheer me up.
4  Good luck, good health, hood cheer.
5  I wrote that song just to cheer myself up.
6  A crowd had come then to stare and cheer and lay bets - with the man Randall.
7  A thousand supporters packed into the stadium to cheer them on.
8  The best way to spread Christmas cheer is to sing loud for everyone to hear!
9  You are not well, you have no friend to cheer you, and this melancholy is the result.
10  Instead, the crowd began sarcastically to cheer him on and showered him with facetious advice.
11  The crowd is preparing to cheer and spark triumph of the runners.
12  He was in an expansive humor, cheerfully urging his guests to join in the Christmas feast.
13  The venal policeman cheerfully accepted the bribe offered him by the speeding motorist whom he had stopped.
14  How cheerfully he seems to grin; How neatly spread his claws; And welcome little fishes in; With gently smiling jaws
15  After the game, the members of the two teams fraternize as cheerfully as if they have never been rivals.