HAPPY in a Sentence

Learn HAPPY 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.
420 example sentences for HAPPY, such as:
1. I am happy to accept your invitation.
2. Life's too short to be anything but happy.
3. He alone is happy who commands his passions.
4. He was happy to act as a consultant to the company.
5. We are happy to announce the engagement of our daughter.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of HAPPY
happy
 a.  enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
 a.  eagerly disposed to act or to be of service
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  Very well, and very happy, only a little uneasy that they hear from you so seldom.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  You will find a happy, cheerful home and friends who love you dearly.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  My trifling occupations take up my time and amuse me, and I am rewarded for any exertions by seeing none but happy, kind faces around me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  We returned to our college on a Sunday afternoon: the peasants were dancing, and every one we met appeared gay and happy.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  Felix seemed peculiarly happy and with smiles of delight welcomed his Arabian.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
11  Safie was always gay and happy; she and I improved rapidly in the knowledge of language, so that in two months I began to comprehend most of the words uttered by my protectors.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  They did not appear rich, but they were contented and happy; their feelings were serene and peaceful, while mine became every day more tumultuous.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
13  Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
15  I am happy to remark, my dear son, that you have resumed your former pleasures and seem to be returning to yourself.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
2  The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
3  The key to a happy life is to accept you are never actually in control.
4  Please accept our wishes for you and yours for a happy New Year.
5  I am happy to accept your invitation.
6  He was happy to act as a consultant to the company.
7  He alone is happy who commands his passions.
8  We are happy to announce the engagement of our daughter.
9  All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
10  Life's too short to be anything but happy.
11  Most Conservative MPs appear happy with the government's reassurances.
12  Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
13  Other directors appear happy that Lord Hollick has been squeezed out.
14  Those days when we were together appear in my mind time after time,because they were so joyful, happy, blest, disappointing, sad and painful.
15  Apply yourself to true riches; it is shameful to depend upon silver and gold for a happy life.