How to Use hilarity in a Sentence

hilarity

noun

• My attempt to carve the turkey was a source of great hilarity at the dinner table.
• Their quest to get touched for the very first time led to much hilarity.
  — Mara Reinstein, Vulture, 6 June 2024
• Watch the awkwardness and the hilarity in the video above.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 15 June 2018
• But the problems at VisitMexico.com drew howls of hilarity — and anger.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2020
• Maybe not with the grace, whining, hilarity and eye-rolling that Sedaris does.
  — Patton Oswalt, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• The dire circumstances of these young, vibrant men and the hilarity of the ice dumps struck a chord and a movement was born.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
• The memory of the hilarity that goes on in the clubhouse and in the dugout was something that was just amazing for me.
  — Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
• Kelly is heading back to The Voice on March 6, viewers are about to get a whole lot of hilarity from the singer.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 21 Dec. 2022
• But despite the hilarity of the scene, Graham was not a fan of her feline costars.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2022
• When one of the boys invites their crush, hilarity breaks loose.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2024
• The cater waiters are as stuck in the unhappy present as the rest of us, and their misery is our hilarity.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• Pushing someone down the stairs is the height of hilarity.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• The whole of the series reached a stage of sad hilarity, really.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
• But [the film] really does touch on the comedy of life, the hilarity and tragedy.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• The memes always contain at least a grain of truth beneath the hilarity.
  — William Camargo, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• Everyone is on the same page, and that page is hilarity.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• Away from the hilarity, many wondered why the message took hours to be deleted.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 31 May 2017
• But the hilarity is tempered by the Witch’s high drama and a dose of skeptical sense.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Very mild hilarity ensues, as Zoey proves hapless on the slopes, and in other ways doesn’t live up to her billing.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Check out the video above to see Bryant's hilarity on display in tandem with the gullibleness of these baseball fans.
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Somehow, the two of them turn the classroom into a dance floor, and hilarity ensues.
  — Sam Tornow, Billboard, 19 June 2018
• Renfield suckles from the same vein, but gets barely a drop of hilarity from it.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 Apr. 2023
• Journey back to the original set and source of so much hilarity.
  — John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2019
• Being a French girl in New York has its moments of hilarity.
  — Mathilde Ollivier, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 May 2019
• Thanks for your love, friendship and for your hilarity.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 13 Mar. 2019
• Just like Harry, Twitter users saw the hilarity in what happened, too, and were quick to have some fun about what happened.
  — Allie Gemmill, Teen Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
• Some of Mike’s writing is about the hilarity of the mundane, the hilarity of the privileged.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 14 June 2023
• But it could be argued there was more substance to the two wins than just opening-weekend hilarities.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2023
• Her character’s hilarity arose from the path that her arched eyebrow traversed as Lucille shut the door on one of her sons.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2021
• Add more jokes about survivalists and about Trump for his tough talk, and hilarity ensues.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024