Sentence examples for mood lightened from inspiring English sources

The officials passed around the bourbon, and the mood lightened.

Takahashi said the trip was stressful, but that once he got his visa his mood lightened.

After he'd had a couple of vodka-and-tonics, his mood lightened and his guard lowered.

The mood lightened; Ms. Thompson led a brief salsa-dancing clinic in the bus aisle.

Yet the mood lightened and built as the race went on.

But moments later the train pulled in and the mood lightened as porters flipped compartment seats into sleeper berths.

Mood immediately lightened.

PAGE A16 SIGNS OF PROGRESS IN ALBANY Following weeks of insults and accusations, Republican and Democratic leaders in the State Senate displayed a lightened mood that hinted at progress.

But with the Fourth of July a day away, there was a lightened mood — after weeks of insults and accusations that have shattered the chamber's usual decorum — and suggestions of progress, however halting.

"We need everyone we can get right now," said Yankees Manager Joe Girardi, whose mood was further lightened with losses by Baltimore and Tampa Bay, which narrowed his team's deficit in the wild-card race to two and a half games and seven and a half in the American League East.

As the rain lashed down, the main event was in danger of turning into the 4x100m freestyle but the skies above lightened and Bolt lightened the mood doing what Bolt always does.