adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
smile
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Ace stood silently as the Doctor doffed his hat, and gave Mortimer a cheery smile .
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She always had a cherry-red face, with cheery smile and was a great favourite with the youngsters of the area.
wave
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Professor Cousins gave Chick a cheery wave .
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The arm, uplifted in a cheery wave , is bony, frail, almost opalescent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"How wonderful," he said, but his cheery tone sounded a bit forced.
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A cheery fire burned in the fireplace.
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The woman behind the counter greeted us with a cheery hello.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her responses to the usual chorus of cheery greetings were half-hearted; all she could focus on was Vitor d'Arcos.
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I bounce a few more cheery sentences off her, but she has withdrawn into her shell.
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She wrote back in an unusually cheery vein in-tended to demonstrate, I suppose, that she was mending her ways.
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The casual wink from you, the cheery salute from your buddy, the you-rascal-you smiles of recognition from your workmates.
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The darkness gave way to cheery mood lighting.
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The jam around Samuel's mouth was like a big cheery grin, but his eyes remained sullen.
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The text is helpful, and the maps are bright and cheery .