(a.) Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(3) At best I would like to think about this as Project Cheer; we’re going to be upbeat about this.
(4) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(5) Male patients were more cheerful during encounters with younger assistant nurses while female patients were more cheerful when interacting with older assistant nurses.
(6) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(7) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(8) There was indeed a crowd of “Women for Trump” cheering at the event.
(9) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
(10) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
(11) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(12) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
(13) From one of his hospital visits Marr recalls a woman, eight months pregnant, who had suffered a stroke: "There are people far worse off than me who are so incredibly brave and cheerful.
(14) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
(15) Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport .
(16) The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
(17) "I had spent my teen years listening to Germaine Greer and Susie Orbach talking about female intellect," she says, and cheers all round.
(18) Updated at 4.23pm BST 3.19pm BST 54 mins "Afternoon Ian," cheers Simon McMahon.
(19) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(20) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.
Merrily
Definition:
(adv.) In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.
(2) Newcastle are merrily vaulting up the league on the back of three successive wins (plus another in the Capital One Cup), earning more points in a fortnight than they had from the previous 15 games over nearly seven months.
(3) 9.15pm BST 72 min: As Dortmund fans sing merrily Real continue to attack limply.
(4) Segel threw himself into the movie with gusto, and merrily dances alongside his puppet pals in full-scale song-and-dance numbers.
(5) Ukip, however, has been happy to step into the empty space the mainstream has created, merrily stirring up resentment by linking low wages and immigration, as if this is the personal fault of immigrants, rather than an inevitable aspect of globalisation.
(6) But still, it’s not actually very nice, merrily passing round emails that are none of our business for no reason other than amusement.
(7) 4.57pm BST The Italian tune passes off without a hitch, a jaunty number with which the players sing along merrily, though Pirlo, as ever, seems to be putting to be putting in less effort than everyone else - but he probably has the voice of Pavarotti.
(8) At the end Swann, unusually batting two places above Broad, swung merrily alongside the stalwart Steve Mullaney so that Nottinghamshire could set a target, which would prove beyond the capacity of brave Glamorgan.
(9) A new production of his show Merrily We Roll Along is at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London SE1 (020 7378 1713), until 23 February.
(10) It felt like we were really making the Merrily We Dance.” Still, even if he becomes the breakout star of Hail, Caesar!, Ehrenreich is probably best known for the YA witchcraft movie Beautiful Creatures – a very different kettle of fish, one would assume.
(11) Also nominated are John Tiffany (Once), Maria Friedman (Merrily We Roll Along) and the outgoing National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner (Othello).
(12) Around the time of signing that contract, Cresswell, perhaps not able to believe his good luck or gall, was reported to have been seen merrily burning money at the bar of Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms.
(13) He may offend vast swaths of the globe and merrily refer to people from Papua New Guinea as “ cannibals ”, but he does so with a boyish grin that makes it look as though he’s just being honest.
(14) Needless to say, Darcey is utterly unfazed, merrily pottering along with a nonchalant air.
(15) who like nothing better than settling down with a good book, or merrily browsing the internet, exploring content for hours on end.
(16) On Thursday he sounded hoarse and shrill as he poured scorn on opponents for the umpteenth time, causing much amusement among Twitter users merrily circumnavigating the ban .
(17) "I've got no inner life," he declares merrily, something that is plainly untrue.
(18) Merrily Watkins Late thirties, single mother with a difficult teenager, Merrily Watkins is a parish priest ... and exorcist (or, as rebranded by the modern Church of England, "Deliverance Consultant").
(19) His wife, the actor Carey Mulligan , took some persuading on it ... Mumford and Mulligan married in April, and she is here at the venue today, merrily flitting about the wings, wearing a jumper with a large letter M on it.
(20) Just two hours later, I find myself riding merrily alongside Juan Manuel, herding sheep.