convivial

Example Sentences

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There isn’t anywhere else that one can walk into and immediately satisfy the social instinct among a convivial and refreshingly diverse clientele in what is becoming an increasingly homogenized locality.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The atmosphere is convivial but tinged with tension.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

After a convivial afternoon, Lauren Harper Pope, co-founder of Welcome PAC, said the words everyone wanted to hear: “Now’s the really fun part,” she said.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2025

But behind this convivial scene a "gnarly and unpleasant" legal battle is underway.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2025

It had been a feeling she’d been after, a convivial solidarity; she’d hoped to murmur to one another, as if sitting at the edge of one of their beds.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen