convivial

Example Sentences

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The icehouse, used as a living space, became “a site of convivial socializing among musicians and cognoscenti.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 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

Police lined the streets and, in the balmy 25C weather, their reassuring presence brought a lively and convivial atmosphere, far removed from the terror of last month.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2025

Consider it a soothing symbol of a less digital, pre-pandemic world centered on convivial small-town life.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2024

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