adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
happily married (= in a happy relationship with your husband or wife )
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I have been happily married for nine years.
live peacefully/quietly/happily etc
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The two communities live peacefully alongside each other.
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She thought that she would get married and live happily ever after like in a children’s story .
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Some people like to live dangerously.
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Most elderly people prefer to live independently if they can.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
married
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You asked me how I stayed happily married and I replied.
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He has a daughter of 23 by his first marriage and is happily married to his second wife Jenny.
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When they met she was happily married to her first husband Laurie Brown, a member of Manchester United's back-room staff.
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Pagan and I are happily married , with babies as well as jobs.
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She was a large lady, happily married with three kids, without a chemical trace of inhibition in her body.
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He was a quiet, apparently happily married man with no enemies.
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Once again, I was restless and unfulfilled, though I now had a successful business and was happily married .
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He was a short, energetic man, modest in his tastes and happily married , though childless.
■ VERB
accept
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Imagine the joy of our mentors when we recognize what is going on and happily accept and welcome this process.
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The gift, which he happily accepted , took effect Jan. 1.
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Especially when the players themselves happily accept the high stakes for which they play, gambling with their bodies.
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Each then happily accepted her biological baby.
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Shopkeepers, garage owners, hoteliers etc., will happily accept such cheques knowing they will receive their money.
agree
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And he happily agreed to donate the pumpkin for a charity event in which contestants would guess how many seeds it contained.
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Cook agreed happily , but only if he could follow the bus in his pickup truck.
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When he asked her to be his wife, Sethe happily agreed and then was stuck not knowing the next step.
chat
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Everyone chatted happily , except Susan, who sat alone, not looking up from the magazine she was reading.
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It is not heart-felt, and the two opponents will happily chat away out of sight of the cameras afterwards.
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But Christopher Taylor will happily chat to you in any one of 18 languages.
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The conductor was still chatting happily .
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Elaine was now chatting happily with Francis, and Bernice had learnt more about the strangely anachronistic civilization of Arcadia.
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They left sticking close to their father and chatting happily to the crowds.
end
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The story ended happily , sort of.
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This would explain why most children placed by her are cases that end happily ever after.
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Maybe she shut her eyes for a moment and tried to tell herself that things might still end happily .
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I was tired of pretending that any stories in which I figured could ever end happily .
live
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Yet traditionally football and business have not lived happily together.
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Perseus and Andromeda lived happily ever after.
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And everyone will live happily ever after.
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She knew that she would not have lived happily ever after with Peter Datchett.
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He lived happily thus for a long time; then he made the gods angry.
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And they both lived happily ever after.
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Later they had a son named Bastianelo, and the family lived happily ever after.
marry
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He has grown-up children from that, and is now happily married for a second time with a young son, Jamie.
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Both single people and unhappily married people report poorer health than peo-ple who are happily married or partnered.
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The catch is these two are more or less happily married -- to other people.
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This struck me as one of those existential moments in the life of a happily married woman.
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He was a phys ed teacher, and happily married , with two young daughters.
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He was a happily married man.
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I think it made happily married men review their vows.
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When the princess saw him, she loved him too, and they were very happily married .
play
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But Christopher was playing happily in hospital last night after making an astounding recovery.
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We stripped our-selves naked and were happily playing doctor by the time our parents found us.
settle
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I settled happily before the blazing fire, musing upon the stupidity of salmon fishing and certain of my friends.
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Organizations that make them often find themselves settling happily into the healthy habit of regular truth-telling.
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But you can also settle happily for the sublime views that you have from this generously turf Ed upland.
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Seventeen Joan settled happily into her new and temporary abode.
smile
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The broth was smiling happily , still clear and unclouded.
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She smiled happily at him and took his hand.
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Lawrence was nodding, smiling happily .
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The bell went and Sam stood up, smiling happily .
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Katherine found herself smiling happily as if the compliment were directed at her own home.
take
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A jet pilot will happily take off in weather that would ground micro-light pilots.
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A few artists will happily take on custom jobs.
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I needed them as much as they needed me and I happily took the rough with the smooth.
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When a brownie adopts a house he happily takes responsibility for many household tasks, which he performs at night.
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The annoying part is the main players will happily take over playing likely won't do them al properly.
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I'd happily take this camera on my adventurous travels.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Happily , Bruce's injuries were not serious.
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The puppy wagged its tail happily .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few artists will happily take on custom jobs.
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Colombine rejects Harlequin, and she and Pierrot live happily ever after.
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I find I can get along quite happily with a few dozen.
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I imagined the ribbon of my life happily unfurling before me.
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Now he had his real orders, from his own memsab; he ascended the ladder happily .
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Second, software houses are happily riding the wave of innovation that the Internet has set off.
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With the 3.9iSE Vogue, the Range Rover continues happily to wear the crown.