Sentence examples for pleased from high-quality English sources.

• I’m pleased that so many people like it.

• If white people are pleased we are glad.

• Unfortunately, no one will be pleased by this display.

• I'm very pleased how we defended, and we were ruthless.

• I look back and say, in a masochistic way, that I’m pleased it was us.”

• Even more absurd was how pleased I felt: I was so happy that we had got married!

• She pleased me with her wit, and I believe that I pleased her also.

• We were running on empty but I'm pleased we earned a point and it's been a good week.

Use pleased in a sentence.

• I was pleased to see that recently there was a day when no UK electricity was generated from coal.

• Elinor was pleased that he had called; and still more pleased that she had missed him.

• While multiple White House staffers and Cabinet members resigned after the riot, Trump was said to have been pleased with the violence.

• He was pleased that there was still hope, and still more pleased that she should be suffering who had made him suffer so much.

• He has those to please who must be pleased, and who (between ourselves) are sometimes to be pleased only by a good many sacrifices.

• The University does not currently supply free sanitary products on campus, though we would be pleased to meet with students to understand if there is an emerging need for this.

• But asking whether a man can will what he wills, or whether a man can be pleased with what he is pleased with, is similar to asking whether a man can steal what he steals.

• He was very much pleased by my asking if I might sleep in my own little room, and I was pleased too; for I felt that I had done rather a great thing in making the request.

pleased sentence examples

• I could tell that it pleased her to consider herself weird, the way it had pleased me at her age, providing an identity that cloaked the shakier aspects of myself that I didn’t want to confront.

• I’m also pleased that I lobbied and campaigned to ensure that some of my train stations in Battersea will also be step free and I’m pleased to say that two of those stations will now be made step free.

• He had a surly old face, and did not seem at all pleased to see her—but then she was displeased with his garden and wore her “quite contrary” expression, and certainly did not seem at all pleased to see him.

• "Scottish Land and Estates was pleased to host the environment minister on a visit to some Tayside farmers recently to discuss beaver impacts on land management and we are pleased that the report acknowledges that the Tayside population does have an impact and that if they were to be permanently reintroduced, efficient, effective and affordable ways of managing and reducing potentially significant impacts on intensively farmed land and other interests would have to be found."