How to Use happily in a Sentence

happily

adverb
  • They lived happily ever after.
  • We happily accept credit cards.
  • They have been happily married for 12 years.
  • And happily, there was no dust that came out of it.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Or rather not sang but yelped along happily.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The two have since moved passed it, and are still happily in love.
    — Haley Kluge, Variety, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The Jays will, happily, hand him the ball.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The group kneaded and rolled out the dough and joked happily.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • One minute your dog is sniffing happily through a spring walk.
    — Diana Bocco, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • But while their children grow up happily, the idyll comes to an end.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Oct. 2022
  • This is one of life's headaches that can be resolved happily.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
  • These cats love to receive pets and will happily curl up on your lap for hours.
    — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 12 June 2026
  • There’s got to be a way for both of you to be happy and happily share a space.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
  • Fast forward a few years, and the pair is now happily married with two kids.
    — Jessica Booth, PEOPLE.com, 28 July 2022
  • Servers speak English and will happily walk you through the menu.
    — Andy Wang, Robb Report, 7 July 2021
  • In all these videos, the tiny humans happily chow down on their butter snacks.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026
  • My eldest child took to it like a fish to water and danced (happily) for many years.
    — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
  • And Williams, as a number of tabloids will happily tell you, is straight.
    — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The kitchen would happily customize any dish on the kid's menu, too.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The dog’s rump is attached to the front of the bird, and the result trots happily along.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Poles happily slid back 20 spots and picked up an extra sixth-rounder.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2022
  • Which is why not every story about bears ends happily.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Each time, the friends put down their cans of Miller Lite and happily obliged.
    — Audrey Pachuta, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • On a hill about 50 yards away, a half dozen of them were happily munching grass.
    — Johannes Lichtman, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2024
  • A new lease on life Poltz has been happily sober for the past 22 years.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Southern states and regions happily lay claim to all types of breads and put their own unique spins on them.
    — Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026
  • That’s one way to get a happily ever after.
    — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • Most bear species will happily feast on meat, fish, and berries, while pandas tend to stick to bamboo.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
  • This is yet another maxi dress my mom would happily make room for in her suitcase.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2026
  • The two lovebirds chattered on happily about the book.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026

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