How to Use felicity in a Sentence

felicity

noun
  • I've always admired his felicity with words.
  • If there are stumbles along the way, there are also many felicities.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 June 2017
  • But what State Bird’s dim sum cart offers me is felicity.
    — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 July 2025
  • The downside of such rampant felicity is its aptitude to push up on anything that moves.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • In a production that was studded with many felicities, this one, in its simplicity, stood out.
    — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
  • The golden message responsible for all this health and felicity?
    — Gillian Silverman, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023
  • His lyrics display an unmatched verbal felicity and wit and evolve from character, situation or mood.
    — Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The felicity that defines Lizzo’s style is something everyone could use.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
  • When such utterances are spoken in jest or in pretense, not all the felicity conditions are satisfied and the magic doesn’t happen.
    — Kai Von Fintel, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2023
  • And at the annual CatCon in Pasadena, which celebrates the summit of feline felicity, cat videos play a big role.
    — Angela Hill, The Mercury News, 13 June 2017
  • What was the secret of American felicity and prosperity?
    — Literary Hub, 15 June 2026
  • Tocqueville—this is apparent even in English translations of his work—constantly revised his writing to achieve maximum clarity and felicity.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
  • However, Juneteenth maintains a resolve to protect Black families, freedom, and felicity.
    — Danielle Broadway, Parents, 19 June 2026
  • The language of his British father and his American mother, of his beloved Shakespeare, and of the never-ceasing Empire was cause for great felicity and solemnity.
    — Tod Worner, National Review, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Even moviegoers who typically care little for production design went nuts for the visual felicities of Wes Anderson’s masterwork.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • When a graduate student can still depend on a departmental stipend, or institutional fellowship of some sort, the felicities of academia are easier to appreciate in the midst of the adversities.
    — Rachel Vorona Cote, The New Republic, 1 May 2018
  • Sills, whose felicity with Shakespeare’s language is so formidable as to sometimes walk off with Othello’s requisite vulnerability, did not always travel far enough down Kadri’s road.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • As their romance develops, the sensitivity and insight with which Johnson treats Andrea’s bewilderment and shame at betraying not just her identity but her people — lesbians as a community — are among this novel’s many felicities.
    — Christine Sneed, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Other highlights were aided by City Center’s distinct stage-to-audience configuration, bringing Balanchine’s choreographic felicities into fine focus.
    — Robert Greksovic, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2018

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