Some of the most reliable online dictionaries are
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary,
and Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English. The best catalogue type
dictionaries that list definitions from established Dictionaries with which they have
contractual agreements--like American Heritage Dictionary, Random House Dictionary, and
Collins English Dictionary--are Dictionary.com and
TheFreeDictionary.com.
Using "happy" as an example,
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary offers many sentences and
separates them visually by major definition, e.g., happy: satisfied. In addition, the
definitions follow the somebody/something style: e.g., "willing: happy to do
something."
Cambridge Advanced Learner's
Dictionary offers sample sentences and offers additional definitions of
"happy" and "happy"-related words by word class, e.g., "happy adjective
(pleased)."
Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary
English offers detailed definitions (e.g., "having feelings of pleasure, for
example because something good has happened to you or you are very satisfied with your
life") and syntax helps. They offer many sample sentences in addition to providing the
somebody/something style: e.g., "be/feel happy for
somebody."
href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/happy">Dictionary.com
href="http://www.tfd.com/happy">TheFreeDictionary.com
href="http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/happy">Oxford
Advanced Learner's Dictionary
href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/happy_1?q=happy">Cambridge
Advanced Learner's Dictionary
href="http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/happy">Longman's Dictionary of
Contemporary English
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