How to Use jollity in a Sentence

jollity

noun

• I love all of the warmhearted jollity of the holiday season.
• The robot dog, which scampers around to add jollity, is a toy.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 18 June 2022
• Upstart Crow gives us Shakespeare in the flesh, along with plenty of jollity and ale.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
• Those opening gestures return at the movement’s end, but in the meantime Haydn stirs up plenty of jollity.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 21 May 2021
• The cheer of the December holidays has all but vanished—the polar vortex seems to have doused any remaining jollity with its ice and bitter temps.
  — Outside Online, 12 Feb. 2014
• Jubilee and jollity were widespread among friends of the beverage; its foes voiced criticism and warning.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Then, last November, just before the latest feast, Rustat’s name was quietly dropped from the jollities.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• Urgently dramatic outer movements enclosed the caustic jollity of the allegretto and the anguished threnody of the largo.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• No one should underestimate the party’s third weapon: jollity.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• From then on, the atmosphere was genial and unstiff—far less grinding than the desperate jollity of 1995, when David Letterman (cited by Kimmel as his inspiration) was our host.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• The accompanying message has all the signs of the quintessential 21st-century Bigfoot fan: excitement coupled with forced, we’re-just-having-a-laugh jollity.
  — oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2020
• Chinatown is the perfect jollity for explorers and adventurous taste buds.
  — Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2021
• Sorkin overplays the grave jollity inside the courthouse, but as beautifully played by Baron Cohen in easily the film’s best performance, Abbie is the one character whose showboating clearly fronts a deeper concern.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2020
• Add in topical references that always keep this annual tradition fresh and fun with everything from Dickens to Dr. Seuss for 90+ minutes of high octane jollity and frivolity.
  — Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 17 Nov. 2021
• In these scenes, and many like them, there is a dependable comic rhythm of jollity paired with sudden violence, and the inherent docility of the Muppets’ bodies allows viewers to observe this theatre of aggressive impulses from an amused distance.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2021
• One day, as Greta nears the point of needing hospitalization, the family, in a desperate bid for domestic jollity, bakes cinnamon buns together.
  — Kirsten Denker, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2020
• False jollity and overenthusiastic signifying do not fill in the gaps between ideas.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
• Gabriel Conroy, the Morkans’ intellectual nephew, feels torn between straightforward goodwill and a snobbish detachment from his family, Christmas jollity and Ireland itself.
  — The Economist, 2 Dec. 2019
• Surprisingly, given its central subject matter, Promise Me, Dad is a brisk, often uplifting read, a consequence of its author’s congenital jollity and irrepressible candor.
  — David Kamp, The Hive, 29 Oct. 2017
• There's a disarming jollity to Vänskä's interpretation of the second movement, its rapidly changing rhythmic structure displaying an admirable cohesiveness.
  — Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 15 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024