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Example sentences for "pleasantly"

Lexicographically close words:
pleas; pleasance; pleasant; pleasanter; pleasantest; pleasantness; pleasantries; pleasantry; pleasaunce; pleasaunt
  1. The doctor smiled pleasantly at the group and singled out Bobby.

  2. On debouching from the forest they passed through pleasantly watered valleys, the hillsides of which were cultivated.

  3. Charles smoothed his hair and smiled pleasantly upon him.

  4. Time jogged on very pleasantly to the party assembled at Ravenshoe that Christmas.

  5. You see that we have got through this three weeks more pleasantly than they did at Varna.

  6. We arrived at Lausanne, an ancient town romantically situated upon the banks of this beautiful lake, and spent a few days very pleasantly with the Saints, the fruits of Elder Stenhouse's labors.

  7. After spending two days pleasantly in Nice we left for Genoa, Italy, where we arrived on Friday, the 27th of December.

  8. This city is pleasantly situated upon a mountain ridge, the slopes of which are terraced with rows of fig and olive trees, rising one above another in regular gradation.

  9. On every visit he came to my house and conversed pleasantly with my wife, but I regarded him rather as a spy.

  10. The field of his operations having been Kentucky, we were very pleasantly entertained by receiving the full accounts of several incidents of which we had heard some rumors.

  11. Before the war she had been in that set which drifted pleasantly through life, and yet she had not been of it.

  12. From the hands of fair women take the drinking-horn, pleasantly brimming with wine and mead.

  13. I should like this affair pleasantly settled.

  14. And so, as if he would intrude his cure upon no one, moved pleasantly off, again crying his wares, nor now at last without result.

  15. Bryant’s and Milton’s Day have been pleasantly observed, and we also voted to observe the birthday of our own beloved Longfellow, who is peculiarly dear to New Englanders.

  16. Days come and go much more pleasantly when our time is fully occupied.

  17. For in the city, where everything is mechanical, the alarm clock seems pleasantly personal.

  18. He is less credulous now, but still the big signs down where the track cuts across the old pasture pleasantly thrill his fancy.

  19. The connection which I may boast of having with the writing of some of these essays illustrates in an amusing way the pleasantly pugnacious character of Joyce's mind.

  20. Your aunt is pleasantly thrilled, and she will entertain all West Swansey with the tale of this literary adventure.

  21. The air was clear and sharp, and the crisp snow crackled pleasantly under my Hessian boots as I strode along the country lanes.

  22. He smiled pleasantly in reply, rose from his seat, and, unlocking with the key he held a small drawer in a chest that stood beside the chimney-piece, took out of it a roll of manuscript and a cigar.

  23. The voice is pleasantly sonorous, although affliction has somewhat deadened its lower notes.

  24. Nothing impresses the visitor more quickly or more pleasantly than the gay and graceful groups which throng the streets or roads.

  25. The two rooms are separated from the hall by light wooden screens, which allow the air to circulate freely from one to another, and in this way the whole building is kept pleasantly cool.

  26. I have seen natives in the valley of the Kamchatka as pleasantly situated, and enjoying as much comfort and almost as many luxuries, as nine tenths of the settlers upon the frontiers of our western States and Territories.

  27. In such comfortable, not to say luxurious, quarters as these, we succeeded, of course, in passing away pleasantly the remainder of the day.

  28. She gave him her hand, and laughed, and looked pleasantly at him, as though there was no cause of unhappiness between them.

  29. At first things did not arrange themselves pleasantly between Madame Melmotte and Marie.

  30. It is to be remembered that they did not go in naturally and pleasantly but at the point of the sword and to the sound of the trumpet.

  31. The leaves of the many cottonwood trees twinkled pleasantly in the clear sunlight, the air was fresh and bracing and the snow mountains looked down upon the city like a visible realization of ideals.

  32. He saluted both gentlemen and turning on his heel in proper military fashion, he marched out of the room, obviously delighted with his own importance and with the adventure which varied so pleasantly the monotonous evenness of his existence.

  33. Now it has to be asserted on Lord Hampstead's behalf that he could talk with almost any Mrs. Jones freely and pleasantly while he remained, and take his departure without that dislocating struggle which is too common.

  34. His pleasantly depressing melancholy was dissipated by a puff of violent emotion; angrily he threw his quatrain into the waste-paper basket and ran downstairs.

  35. In an embayed recess among the surrounding yew trees, leaning her back against the pedestal of a pleasantly comic version of the Medici Venus, executed by some nameless mason of the seicento, he saw Mary pensively sitting.

  36. The pods resemble some species of snails in a remarkable degree, and are placed on dishes of salad for the purpose of exciting curiosity, or for pleasantly surprising the guests at table.

  37. The afternoon passed very pleasantly between the examination of Mr. Juxon's treasures and the conversation those objects elicited.

  38. Mrs. Goddard was unhappy that did not prevent her from talking very pleasantly whenever he saw her, which was nearly every day, and that her griefs were emphatically none of his business.

  39. She looked ten years older as she put her thin hand in his and smiled pleasantly at his greeting.

  40. She smiled so pleasantly and frankly that John's wrath vanished.

  41. To beings constituted as we are, the monotony of singing Psalms would be as great an affliction as the pains of hell and might even be pleasantly interrupted by them.

  42. An echo of old English gaiety sounds very pleasantly through these harvest expenses.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleasantly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cheerfully; fair; favorably; friendly; gladly; graciously; happily; heartily; hopefully; intimately; joyfully; kindly; lightly; pleasantly; warmly; well