jollity

Example Sentences

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Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

As the Lib Dems gather in Bournemouth this weekend for their annual get together, there will be a certain amount of understandable jollity.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

Around the time of February’s Grammy Awards, Shaboozey appeared to have tired — reasonably! — of “Tipsy’s” rootsy jollity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2025

“Yeah, I’ll give you a sticker for free,” Massry says, with the forced jollity of a bartender at 2 a.m.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2024

With all her jollity, Vivian Baxter had no mercy.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou