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How to use gaiety in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Gaiety means the state of being happy or merry. Example: “There was much gaiety at the ball.”

Examples of gaiety by meaning

nounThe state of being happy or merry.

  • There was much gaiety at the ball.
  • The decorations added greatly to the gaiety of the room.
  • Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.1963, Margery Allingham, “Dangerous Lady”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 36

More sentences with gaiety

  • This gave rise to dancing and dinner parties, and fun and gaiety.2022, Steven T. Pankey, chapter 15, in The Red Palace Train, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry rhytiphobia
  • I dug my spoon into it with an assumption of gaiety which I was far from feeling.December 1915, P. G. Wodehouse, “My Battle with Drink”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry marshmallow
  • Lady Rosie - so mad-cap in the gaiety of summer's full-blowing that even the organizer of the prim-and-properness forgot about it.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74. From the entry pilgrim's progress
  • They sought to erect a "fence" against hilarity and gaiety, out of respect for their ever remembered "Destruction."1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 456. From the entry fence
  • The new growth is an olivey green which, mingled in with the red of the 'Rubra', destroys the harmony but adds a raffish gaiety.2004 January 11, Monty Don, “Bring back the birch”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry olivey
  • Gaiety and an overflowing, outpouring love, warmth and clarity, a lighthanded ease, replaced the tormented tension of the will which had marked the outgrown stage.2003, Ida Friederike Görres, The Hidden Face: A Study of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry light-handed
  • But when I reached the passage about the ‘sadism’ and ‘demonicalness’ of my persecution of you, my chagrin couldn’t hold out, and gaiety broke through.1983, Robert de Montesquiou, translated by Terence Kilmartin, “From Robert de Montesquiou, around 8 July 1915”, in Philip Kolb, editor…. From the entry chagrin
  • Lethaby was enchanted by the gaiety, by the casualness, by the unprofessionalness (in the qualifications, frock-coat sense) of the Rossetti, Morris, Webb, Burne-Jones set.1968, P[eter] Ferriday, “W[illiam] R[ichard] Lethaby”, in John Summerson, editor, Concerning Architecture: Essays on Architectural Writers…. From the entry unprofessionalness
  • “You smile and mock me,” she said, “as if I meant naughtily.” “Do you not?” She said with sudden gaiety, “Thou wifed man—I’ll unsmock thee.”1962, Henrietta Buckmaster [pseudonym; Henrietta Delancey Henkle], chapter 9, in All the Living: A Novel of One Year in the Life of…. From the entry wifed
  • The hall, when emptied of its furniture, brilliantly lit, adorned with flowers whose scent tinged the air, presented a wonderful appearance of ethereal gaiety.1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC. From the entry ethereal
  • Cheerfulness, even gaiety, is consonant with every species of virtue and practice of religion, and I think it inconsistent only with impiety and vice.1900, Sabine Baring-Gould, “The Rev. Mr. Carter, Parson-Publican”, in Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events. From the entry consonant
  • Little Miss Jane Berbie, the war-mongress Preziosilla, sings well and with a fetching verse and she added the gaiety this heavy tragedy opera with its psychologically unreal thinking needs.1969 March 19, Doris Reno, “A Stage Full of Top Voices in ‘Forza del Destino’”, in The Miami Herald, 59th year, number 109, page 8-B. From the entry mongress
  • How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation, Dresden figures of pastoral gaiety!1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 3, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego)…. From the entry unreflecting
  • The tempo of all work is being stepped up and the atmosphere of gaiety is being cultivated, sometimes at the expense of overwrought nerves and sacrifices of health.1940 December 19, Cornelia C. Hodges, “Let the Spirit Catch Up”, in California Democrat, volume 82, number 20, California, Mo., →OCLC…. From the entry Santa Claus-mas
  • “‘What are the gaieties of the Rich, the splendours of the Powerful, what is the pride of the Great, what are the gaudy pleasures of High Society?’”1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter II, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus. From the entry high society

Meaning of gaiety

  1. noun The state of being happy or merry.
  2. noun Merrymaking or festivity.

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Questions about gaiety in a sentence

How do you use gaiety in a sentence?
Gaiety is used as a noun. For example: “There was much gaiety at the ball.”
What is a short sentence with gaiety?
“There was much gaiety at the ball.”
What does gaiety mean?
Gaiety means the state of being happy or merry.

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