gaiety

Example Sentences

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The general gaiety of the show doesn’t mean the photos here are slight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Just seven blocks over and five blocks up from where the shell casings hit the sidewalk, they gathered for gaiety in a glitzy ballroom.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2025

Beneath the gaiety and carousing ran an undercurrent of anguish: The country remains locked in a ferocious war with Russia.

From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2023

The staging strenuously strives to leave an impression of fun in capital letters, but the forced gaiety creates quite a racket.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2023

We aren’t going to the river though, we won’t see the little cupolas on the buildings down that way, white with blue and gold trim, such chaste gaiety.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood