How to Use gaiety in a Sentence

gaiety

noun
  • The party had none of the gaiety we've seen in past years.
  • Françoise wanders away from us, from the room, into her own thoughts, solemn yet full of gaiety.
    — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 27 June 2024
  • 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
  • Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.
    — Daphne Merkin, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Fill your life with the colors of happiness, gaiety, fun, and laughter.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Wickedness transcends heartfelt gaiety in the form of neglect, illness and despair.
    — Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • His formidable rich voice voice always carried the gaiety of a comic opera basso.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Where the drops are sparse in detail, the frame delivers in an undeniable elegance and gaiety.
    — Astrid Kayembe, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • But in the end, what makes this painting so intriguing is the tension between the gaiety of the flowers and the woman’s expression.
    — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Later, for nearly 60 years, the lights were out and the gaiety muted in this once-vibrant community.
    — Dorothy Jenkins Fields, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Some had covered World War II and were relieved to focus on scenes of gaiety, society and leisure.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The night carried a distinctly American blend of violence and gaiety.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 26 Apr. 2026
  • 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 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
  • The opening Allegro vacillates between punchy jabs and fluttery gaiety.
    — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Washington adds a sheen of brashly confident gaiety to Harold’s sombre composure.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • With the Red Army closing in, such gatherings, expressions of a desperate gaiety, a fin d’une époque efflorescence, weren’t rare.
    — James Wood, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Anchoring all this is Fiomona’s open-hearted and entertaining performance, deftly moving between emotionally heavy dramatic scenes and others full of gaiety.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • 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

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