(superl.) Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.
(superl.) Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.
(v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
(v. i.) To be glad; to rejoice.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
(2) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(3) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
(4) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
(5) I spoke with him, and he is glad to be back in the US.
(6) I’m glad cryonics is legal – we should all have rights over our bodies | Simon Jenkins Read more The world’s three major facilities - two in the US and KrioRus , a Russian centre on the outskirts of Moscow, differ slightly in price and ethos.
(7) With calls to boycott Amazon over its corporation tax avoidance, taxpayers may be glad of alternatives.
(8) I'm glad I didn't say I'd eat my shoe if one of Carragher and Terry didn't give away a penalty.
(9) In The gladness of life (1884: La joie de vivre) d'E.
(10) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
(11) The couple were glad about this, though modest in their ambitions for it.
(12) Holden Caulfield puts it in a slightly different way: "I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.
(13) 3.20pm BST Reaction from drilling industry Statoil spokesperson Bård Glad Pedersen says the Norwegian oil and gas company is exploring the Arctic through a step-by-step approach that builds on decades of experience in cold water regions.
(14) I spoke to the doctor on the pitch and he said it would be all right to carry on and I am glad I stayed there.
(15) As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it’s become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we’re glad they’re being held accountable.
(16) I'm glad to see that thanks to my calls, the Metropolitan police, the culture, media and sport select committee and the Press Complaints Commission are now investigating these claims.
(17) Benedict Brogan, who has written about this on his blog, says Cameron has "done it direct to camera (if Mr Clegg can look the voter in the eye, so can Dave), and it is interspersed with greatest hits from the crucial moments when Mr Cameron stood out from the pack as someone who is on the side of an angry electorate (these include his expenses press conference last May, his 'glad I got that off my chest' answer to Joey Jones at the manifesto launch, his defence of marriage tax, etc)."
(18) We are glad that the whole job [is] completed to mutual satisfaction and thanks to all who participated and helped to realise the biggest transfer in the club’s history.
(19) They didn't suffer fools gladly, and they ran everything with an iron fist."
(20) I was glad to receive some emails after the reversal applauding the decision as though all was forgiven and, I wondered, perhaps even soon to be forgotten.
Glade
Definition:
(n.) An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
(n.) An everglade.
(n.) An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Autoradiographic analyses of these blots indicate that sequences homologous to HIV-1 genomic RNA and proviral DNA were found in Belle Glade wastewater but not in wastewater from Ocala and Gainesville.
(2) Ten of the 13 species that depend on specific habitats - heathland, coppices, woodland glades, bracken, hedgerows and so on - have fared better on sites where farmers had agreed to tend the landscape with wildlife in mind.
(3) Serums from 95 feral swine trapped in Glades County, Florida, were tested for brucella antibodies, using the standard tube, card, rivanol, and complement-fixation tests.
(4) Glade discovered that Whittamore's ultimate source was a civilian worker at Wandsworth police station, south London, Paul Marshall, who was logging phoney 999 calls in order to justify accessing the computer records of public figures who were of interest to newspapers.
(5) STAY in a modern-day shepherd's hut recycled from old touring caravans in a glade close to Bodiam castle with the Original Hut Company (01580 831 845, original-huts.co.uk , from £79 a night) Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham Long before foraging became trendy, David Everitt-Matthias was cooking astonishing plates using the hedgerow's bounty to supplement top-quality produce.
(6) Mulcaire's name also is likely to have surfaced during Operation Glade.
(7) When the ICO found that Whittamore had also been obtaining information from the police national computer, they contacted the Metropolitan police, who set up Operation Glade.
(8) The movie's American director, Michael Hoffman, had intended to film The Last Station in Yasnaya Polyana, or Clear Glade, Tolstoy's pastoral family estate near Tula, 125 miles south of Moscow.
(9) The high cumulative incidence of AIDS and the large percentage of AIDS patients with no identified risks in Belle Glade, Florida, were evaluated through case interviews and neighborhood-based seroepidemiologic studies.
(10) As he travels through the leafy glades of Buckinghamshire, he may not realise that he is being transported courtesy of Chiltern Rail, which, like other train operating companies in the UK, is a wholly owned subsidiary of a foreign state railway, in this case Germany's.
(11) In a quiet glade by their riverside home, Salim's teenage sons described the agony of watching their father cling desperately to life.
(12) A population-based serosurvey of human immunodeficiency virus in Belle Glade, FL, enabled evaluation of risk factors for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in this racially mixed community.
(13) As a result it was established that during the season of ticks' activity in the biotope of shrub meadows 26%, in the biotope of overgrown and trashed glades 14.4% and in the biotope of young aspen forest 13.8% of marked ticks were repeatedly found.
(14) Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, and Mycobacterium scrofulaceum (MAIS) organisms were isolated and identified from waters, soils, aerosols, and droplets ejected from water collected from four geographically separate aquatic environments (Okefenokee Swamp, GA; Dismal Swamp, VA; Claytor Lake, VA; and Cranberry Glades, WV) during several seasons.
(15) Distance 4 miles (6.4km) Classification Easy Duration 2 hours Begins Clock tower, Dunham Massey OS grid reference SJ735874 Walk in a nutshell Enjoy the woodland glades, the deer park, the gardens and the house on this pleasant stroll around the Dunham Massey estate, the full extent of which lies inside Greater Manchester.
(16) If you have read Arthur Ransome's description of Wild Cat Island – with its one pine standing proud of rowans, oaks and beech trees; its rocky shore repelling landings to all vessels whose captains did not know the secret of the island's one safe passage; and its pleasant glades where picnics could be enjoyed and stratagems hatched – you have seen Peel island.
(17) The high cumulative rate of AIDS in Belle Glade appears to be the result of HIV transmission through sexual contact and intravenous drug abuse; the evidence does not suggest transmission of HIV through insects.
(18) It was John Boyall's role which opened the door to Operation Glade's interest in the News of the World.
(19) The Maze Runner casts two-dozen teenage boys into a vast glade enclosed by a vaster labyrinth guarded by bio-mechanical predators called Grievers.
(20) Raw wastewaters were obtained from the cities of Belle Glade, Ocala and Gainesville in the state of Florida and were concentrated using several established methods for the recovery of human enteroviruses.