Sentence examples for a small joy from inspiring English sources

A small joy, a sudden foolish dance at the window, is still permitted, isn't it?

Which – I get it – is a small joy in a grim world.

At least one Council member, Peter F. Vallone Jr. of Queens, seemed to take a small joy in voting for 15 Penn Plaza.

Now, living in roomier surroundings, there is some mystery, "which brings back a small joy, a new aspect of our marriage," Mrs. Song Kim said.

But it would be a small one, and I would lose the ability to share a small joy of my childhood with my daughter.

I wasn't convinced by the "life-affirming" ending, which traded subtlety for a dramatic twist it hadn't quite earned, but on the whole it was a small joy.

The Mario Kart gameplay was a bit more intimate, with two players grabbing a small Joy-Con, transforming it into a sort of microcontroller.

It was a circus trifle, but the women repeated it over and over, and any small joy we might have experienced upon seeing its first iteration evaporated.

I wasn't surprised by his arrival, but one of the little boys in the audience was beside himself, and performed a small jig of joy.

Those who lack a sense of smell... are cut off from a thousand small joys that the rest of us depend on".

Those who lack a sense of smell – the technical term is anosmia – are cut off from a thousand small joys that the rest of us depend on.