happy event

Example Sentences

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“Not that you shouldn’t celebrate the happy event, but the brother or sister may need a little extra love.”

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

But much of the second season revolves around a happy event: the imminent wedding of Murray Hill's Fred Rococo, casually announced during a poker game.

From Salon • May 7, 2023

Yet, in the same issue, in flies Style’s art critic Sebastian Smee on a broomstick to play down the happy event.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2019

The press got wind of the happy event, and it soon got happier still.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 22, 2018

“No higher pleasure...even compared with the happy event that, I hear, has taken place in your family this week?”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling