Sentence examples for pleased knowing from inspiring English sources

The tent had been his prize possession as a boy, but now he was pleased knowing it could be enjoyed by another boy.

When the judges of the Arthur C Clarke award suggested that my novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb was a cosy catastrophe, I was very pleased, knowing the term had been coined to describe Wyndham's work, and being a great Wyndham fan.

It's a huge expanse of terrain -- the scene of long-ago forest fire -- where there are no traditional runs; you're free to wander about as you please, knowing that if you don't duck under a boundary rope, every drainage will lead you back to the lift.

As Mrs Prout thinks: "How petty she was to be pleased at knowing that by this time tomorrow, most of the village would be aware that she made her own ravioli.

At another, Mr. Martos places a hotel bell on top of a suitcase with a sign saying, "Please, ring," knowing that some intrepid soul will answer that siren call.

There are passages here and there from which the connoisseurs alone can derive satisfaction; but these passages are written in such a way that the less learned cannot fail to be pleased, though without knowing why..

There are passages here and there from which the connoisseurs alone can derive satisfaction; but these passages are written in such a way that the less learned cannot fail to be pleased, though without knowing why...

"Cold war readers," Caleb Crain says, "decided that the message" of "Billy Budd" was "authority," while "formalist readers... were so pleased with their knowing identification of Melville's slipperiness that they decided that the slipperiness was the message".

If I didn't care about starving children, please explain the knowing nod I always give those clipboard-wielding volunteers as I walk past them.

Mr. Carter took a survey of around 500 individuals living within a mile of the national park, asking questions like "Does it please you just knowing that tigers exist in the nearby forests?" and "How worried are you that tigers will attack you or someone in your family?" He also asked people whether they preferred that the tiger populations increase, decline or remain the same.

If you decide to wear the Islamic headscarf in solidarity with me, by all means, please do so knowing that I and millions like myself will take the hand you extend and form a circle to drown out the divisive voices of bitterness, intolerance and hatred that ring in our midst.