jaunty

Example Sentences

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The jaunty wool cap pulled over her honey-brown hair may be her nod to both the cold winter weather and more conservative ways.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

The pop star achieved the feat with her single XMAS, an irrepressibly jaunty anthem about "the presents underneath the tree" and kissing someone special "out in the snow".

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

In another cast, opposite the less effective Isaac Hernández, Léa Fleytoux played the ballet’s jaunty interloper with insouciance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

The other park, not far up the coast, was as perky and clean-cut as a barbershop quartet, painted the colors of sand and sky, with shipshape and jaunty ocean-inspired adventures, and zippy, futuristic, razzle-dazzle rides.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025

Its roof beams sagged in the middle, its shingles clung loosely, and the chimney pipe swayed with each wave, trying to be jaunty but not very good at it.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt