How to Use happiness in a Sentence

happiness

noun
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  • They made a toast to long life and happiness.
  • Choose to be around those who will not feel threatened by your happiness or success.
    — Sara Kuburic, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • To increase your happiness today, invite a friend to meet up tonight.
    — Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
  • This film adaptation will bring happiness to millions more.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
  • But ideals fill the idealist with a certain kind of joy, a joy that is not identical to happiness.
    — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • Your pursuit of happiness is jarred when your security needs are unmet.
    — Nitin Bajaj, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Even when Mitin is smiling, there is a little bit of a shrug to it that colors his apparent happiness.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Why does travel not factor into your approach to daily happiness?
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2022
  • And, for that matter, anyone who has learned that even realized ambition does not necessarily bring happiness.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the province of individuals.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 17 Dec. 2022
  • But as many residents expressed relief and happiness at the obvious loosening of measures, some worried about its impact and questioned how the new rules would be rolled out.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Jisoo also expresses her happiness at attending the VMAs.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2022
  • But what's most impressive is Herrera's ability to acknowledge the sins of colonialism and its attendant challenges and stake a claim to happiness, joy, and love in spite of that.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • This fragrance will bring the same sentiments of happiness and exuberance one experiences when encountering the ocean’s glory.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Being aware of one’s values helps people live authentically, which ultimately leads to sustainable happiness.
    — Colleen Reilly, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • But there’s one place where happiness is the name of the game.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2020
  • And most of all thank you @bradfalchuk for the true happiness.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Here's to many more years of happiness for the Berkus-Brents!
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Still, to see the success of the league up close gave me a jolt of happiness.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Does the cost of happiness vary among U.S. cities, too?
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Placement The right rose in the right place will bring you a lot of happiness.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • May the happiness of Purim guide you in your faith all year long.
    — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 24 Feb. 2023
  • May this day bring you lots of happiness, joy but most of all lots of smiles.
    — Sydni Ellis, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
  • May you be showered with all of these and a lot of happiness.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The past four years have brought a lot of happiness into my life.
    — Michael C. Dealoia, cleveland.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • This gave me a great deal of comfort and happiness to be that close to her again.
    — Richard Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • That sort of crazy laugh of where there was just pure happiness shown on her face.
    — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022
  • People are drawn to happiness and to joy, not doom and gloom.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024
  • This may be good for the bottom line but not for our health and happiness.
    — Brad Stulberg, Outside Online, 24 May 2022
  • There were no gaps in the happiness that consumed this block.
    — Omar Tate, Bon Appétit, 3 Sep. 2020

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