"pleased" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The short man was quietly pleased; they were safe.
- She did not laugh often, but she could not help a quietly pleased chuckle at the clock.
- He showed little emotion in any of them, but even so Alex could tell that he was quietly pleased to be there.
- Jones said he was quietly pleased, but not surprised.
- Though he didn't admit it to anyone, Shaddam was quietly pleased that she might be going mad.
- Quietly pleased, I stood for a moment, eyes closed, studying the glowing blue lines etched in my mind's eye.
- "Big deal," said a quietly pleased McDonald's executive last week.
- When she had finished, she sat back, quietly pleased at the good job she had made of it.
- Miz sat back down in the shell-boat, looking quietly pleased with himself.
- 'Well, they asked a favour,' the man said, quietly pleased that he seemed finally to have impressed the old drone.
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