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How to use gaily in a sentence

21 example sentences · adverb

Gaily means merrily. Example: “She laughed gaily and assured me, “Your brother still has the new baby look.”

More sentences with gaily

  • She laughed gaily and assured me, “Your brother still has the new baby look.2015, Teri Metcalf, Rambler Rose. From the entry cuten
  • On the end is a monster spoon-hook, gaily ornamented with gaudy feathers.2010, Nick Lyons, The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told, page 143. From the entry spoon-hook
  • Art department needs a drafting board so they can gaily align ("straighten") the rag more quickly.1983 April 9, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15. From the entry drafting board
  • Gaily the grey horses curvetted to their destination at the church-gate, a laughter in the whole movement.1920, D. H. Lawrence, chapter I, in Women in Love, Penguin, published 1995, page 18. From the entry curvet
  • "Now, you've got just grounds for shooting me," he said gaily, and instantly regretted his infelicitous remark.1909, William MacLeod Raine, “chapter 24”, in Ridgway of Montana. From the entry infelicitous
  • I notice his sleepwear: candy corn sprinkled over flannel pants, a googly-eyed jack-o'-lantern grinning gaily from his T-shirt.2017, Katy Upperman, Kissing Max Holden, page 15. From the entry googly-eyed
  • May the pair of yuanyang 鸳鸯 augur well for our proposed union with Dominant Duck," said Susie gaily.2016, Matt Huang, Grace Hsu, Young China Hand, →ISBN. From the entry yuanyang
  • The train clacketed through pine forests and honked derisively at a gaily painted bell-funneled museum piece sidetracked in a clearing.2015 July 10, “Harper Lee’s new novel: read the first chapter”, in The Guardian. From the entry clacket
  • They ate at one o’clock on gaily flowered crockware.2003, Francine Craft, Linda Hudson-Smith, Michelle Monkou, Give Love, Arabesque, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry crockware
  • Brassy German bands play oompapah music for gaily costumed locals, ethnic dancers, Schuhplattlers, and entertainers from Munich and Austria.1987, Edna Staebler, “Oktoberfest”, in Schmecks Appeal: More Mennonite Country Cooking, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, published…. From the entry schuhplattler
  • Those were the days of the cable cars and we all jumped on a grip-car and set off visiting gaily.1953, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, As I Remember, Harper, →OCLC, page 81. From the entry grip car
  • Vendors now sell gold fish through the streets, along with hawkers of tokoroten, or sea-weed jelly, and gaily decorated wind bells.1925, The Brooklyn Museum Quarterly, volume 12, page 42. From the entry tokoroten
  • We used to watch the Poshocracy from our window as they walked about the court, met, waved gaily, exchanged suitably jolly greetings.2013, Christopher Isherwood, Lions and Shadows, page 37. From the entry poshocracy
  • The males assembled in the region of the bar and the opposite gender either sat discreetly detached or strayed outside to gossip gaily among themselves.2008, Peter Hewitt, Kenya Cowboy: A Police Officer's Account of the Mau Mau Emergency, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry apartheid
  • Gaily dressed in party clothes, even to red “velvet” shoes . . . hairbowed in saucy twin pony tails, she’s bound to win any heart!1964 October 23, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 63rd year, number 6, Saskatoon, Sask., page twenty. From the entry hairbowed
  • SANTA CLAUS — Members of Children’s Service League will bring to annual Christmas luncheon Friday gaily wrapped packages for children at Orthopaedic Hospital.1955 December 6, Valley Times, late news edition, volume 19, number 290, North Hollywood, Calif., →OCLC, page 7, column 3. From the entry Mrs. Santa Claus
  • I love you gaily, madly, high-heartedly!1931, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (screenplay). From the entry high-heartedly
  • A tall, spindly man gaily swept into the room, his gleaming white Turkey teeth lighting the way ahead of him, a beacon in the mood lighting of the boutique.2023, Gina Kirkham, Murders at the Rookery Grange Retreat: A brand new unmissable humorous cozy crime mystery, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry Turkey teeth
  • Gaily painted, with lots of sheer and a defiantly jaunty look to them, the dories have been pleasing the eyes of their beholders for nearly a century.1978 March, Steven H. Rubin, “The St. Pierre Dory: An Endangered Species”, in Boating, volume 43, number 3, →ISSN, page 72. From the entry dory
  • Thinking that it might be Lord Carbury, and that, if so, he would probably not wait until half past nine to break his fast, she ran gaily off.1905, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 3, in The Irrational Knot. From the entry break one's fast
  • Petro saw what she had handed over so gaily, he would probably want to search her house for more—and it would not be because he admired her choice of wineware.1995, Lindsey Davis, Time to Depart, The Mysterious Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry wineware

Meaning of gaily

  1. adverb Merrily.
  2. adverb Showily.

Full definition of gaily

Questions about gaily in a sentence

How do you use gaily in a sentence?
Gaily is used as an adverb. For example: “She laughed gaily and assured me, “Your brother still has the new baby look.”
What is a short sentence with gaily?
“I love you gaily, madly, high-heartedly!”
What does gaily mean?
Gaily means merrily.

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