Sentence examples for once happy from inspiring English sources

For once, Happy was happy.

Once Happy Valley's venerable hero, Joe Paterno, led his knights in defense of the nation's honor.

The tension between banks and developers, once happy accomplices in a booming business, is palpable.

Even comic publishers, as this show demonstrates, were once happy to shortchange their own creators.

Their once happy life had turned into one of the most famous bad marriages in literary history.

His ex-wife, Monique, ruminates about their once happy marriage even as she quietly battles an aggressive illness.

Separating couples, torn in half, may find themselves unable to look at pictures of their once-happy family, yet also unwilling to let them go.

Wayne's once-happy marriage to his wife, Reneé (Beth Lisick), has stagnated, along with the economy that claimed her well-paying job at a small advertising agency; she now does occasional freelance work.

There are wars, conflicts, disasters of every kind, and by the time the once-happy couple reunites at the end, his naive optimism is all but gone, and she is but a haggard, broken shadow of her former self.

In "All or Nothing," which focuses on the intertwined lives of three families, the spark has gone out of Phil's long, once-happy marriage to Penny, a supermarket checker (Lesley Manville).

TODD FIELD'S directorial debut, "In the Bedroom," which won five Oscar nominations, including best picture, is about what becomes of a once-happy Maine couple (Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek, nominated for best actor and best actress) after their college-age only son is killed by the estranged husband of their son's girlfriend.