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How to use convivial in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Convivial means having elements of a feast or of entertainment, especially when it comes to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity. Example: “I spent many a convivial evening at the club.”

Examples of convivial by meaning

adjectiveHaving elements of a feast or of entertainment, especially when it comes to eating and drinking, with accompanying...

  • I spent many a convivial evening at the club.
  • My grandpa was famously convivial.
  • I put the chief of police behind the bar, instructed him in his duties, and we four convivial spirits sprawled along the counter drinking ale and telling yarns till cockcrow.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 175

More sentences with convivial

  • Another convivial and single-course dish that I am thinking of is “farcement”.2019, Christine Cappio, Gweimui’s Hong Kong Wet Markets. From the entry farcement
  • But it was only the convivial lull that was to precede a post-prandial storm.2011, H. R. Haweis, Music and Morals, page 242. From the entry inter pocula
  • To be lured into his shop for a convivial spot was disastrous.1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 41. From the entry spot
  • Bayrou had, even before the debate began, invited his entourage to a “convivial moment,” or farewell soirée, this evening.2025 September 8, Roger Cohen, “French Prime Minister Bayrou Loses Confidence Vote, Putting Pressure on Macron”, in The New York Times…. From the entry foretell
  • Tonight, he was acting the part of a convivial smoothtalker.1981 April, Matt Braun, chapter 4, in Tombstone (Luke Starbuck; 3), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry smoothtalker
  • Picturing the city as a series of overlapping walksheds is an important start to understanding, conceptualizing, and mapping the city as a convivial place for pedestrians.2013, John Rennie Short, Globalization, Modernity and the City, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry walkshed
  • Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."2003, Joseph A. Conforti, Imagining New England, page 107. From the entry visiting
  • Men are more likely to be placed in separated settings (from the unregulatedly convivial to the harsh boot camplike) with other men in late adolescence and early adulthood.2002, Mary A. Carskadon, Adolescent Sleep Patterns: Biological, Social, and Psychological Influences, page 97. From the entry unregulatedly

Meaning of convivial

  1. adjective Having elements of a feast or of entertainment, especially when it comes to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity.

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Questions about convivial in a sentence

How do you use convivial in a sentence?
Convivial is used as an adjective. For example: “I spent many a convivial evening at the club.”
What is a short sentence with convivial?
“My grandpa was famously convivial.”
What does convivial mean?
Convivial means having elements of a feast or of entertainment, especially when it comes to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity.

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