become cheerful

Example Sentences

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Every now and then Milton’s optimism would sway my mother and she would become cheerful for a day or two.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

If anything she had become cheerful and certainly as human as any girl he had known.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

You will be a better boy if you conquer your weakness, and become cheerful and contented, than you could have been, had no sacrifice been required of you.

From Arthur Hamilton, and His Dog by Anonymous

Let him become cheerful, and his mind become buoyant, he then considers himself sure that he has, what is called, an interest in Christ.

From A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion by Offen, Benjamin

We are told that at Chios there was a head of Artemis set high up, which appeared morose to those entering the temple, but when they left it seemed to have become cheerful.

From Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Gardner, Ernest Arthur