How to Use gaiety in a Sentence

gaiety

noun

• The party had none of the gaiety we've seen in past years.
• Yes, an adornment to society, a man who added to the gaiety of life.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 July 2021
• Hopper caught that the seeming sadness of city life is also part of its gaiety.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
• Fill your life with the colors of happiness, gaiety, fun, and laughter.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 17 Jan. 2023
• Some had covered World War II and were relieved to focus on scenes of gaiety, society and leisure.
  — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2020
• The film begins with Deren bearing a skein of yarn and, with forced gaiety, recruiting Christiani for its winding (as Nin looms in the background).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.
  — Daphne Merkin, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2017
• In spite of the temperature, a festal gaiety was rising.
  — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Wickedness transcends heartfelt gaiety in the form of neglect, illness and despair.
  — Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
• There is no place, not even India, where the use of color produces as beguiling a mixture of gaiety and melancholy as Mexico.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• There is something heroic in the desperate gaiety with which Crane and Cora insisted on living well until the end.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• There was laughter and gaiety, but the president said literally almost nothing about what is in the bill or who would benefit from it.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 5 May 2017
• These same two items—Cary Grant’s cheapness and his gaiety—play throughout Mr. Eyman’s lengthy biography.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
• His tall, broad-shouldered hunchback stomps around the court in the multi-colored motley teasing his master and his henchmen with seeming good-natured gaiety.
  — Bill Hirschman, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• Television put her very American appeal on full display: her charm, her gaiety.
  — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
• In fact, if you're surrounded by gaiety and merriment but not having the best of times yourself, all that festivity can make your own solitude even more miserable.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2022
• Those feelings of community and gaiety are among the many catalysts driving card and tabletop games into a golden age not seen since the 80s, industry experts say.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2022
• People watching the parades in all their color, the stuntmen performing impossible feats, the gaiety, the music, measured their ordinary lives against this enchantment and ran away to join the circus.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• There was the wild charm of the koans and tales, which were celebrated for their gaiety and refusal of normal hierarchies, but there was also the lifetime of discipline—including regular beatings from the boss—that gave point to the parables.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• Daphne, not the most doting of mothers, returns to the gaiety of London, leaving her husband and child to bond; their time together inspires Milne's hugely successful foray into children's fiction.
  — Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader, 19 Oct. 2017
• Washington adds a sheen of brashly confident gaiety to Harold’s sombre composure.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Its unique note is the simultaneous striking of many notes; of humility, of gaiety, of gratitude, of mystical fear, but also of vigilance and of drama.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
• Before these gripping moments, exceptionally realistic in a musical, there has been a festival of romance and gaiety.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024