1.   Her cheerful mood stands in sharp contrast to her dreary surroundings.

2.   He was in a cheerful mood, in spite of his severe look, his scraped-back hair, conservative clothes and businesslike glasses.

3.   Frank Hartwell was in a cheerful mood as he finished his rounds as a tour guide on the USS Missouri.

4.   John Paul Denning, a sophomore at New York University, was in an unusually cheerful mood as he strolled to class one bright morning last fall.

5.   Muhammad Ismail Abequa seemed to his elderly mother to be in a cheerful mood when he landed in Jordan last week.

6.   She was sitting in the first-class lounge, drinking coffee, and in a cheerful mood.

7.   Sunlight from windows overlooking a garden floods onto a Pompeii-esque mural in the dining room, creating a cheerful mood.

8.   Someone made him a crude crutch, so he can hobble around, and he was in a very cheerful mood.