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
  • Like the bathtub in her garden, everything in her home broadcasts jollity.
    — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
  • And so, in two gorgeous numbers, all the manic jollity disappears.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • 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
  • Jubilee and jollity were widespread among friends of the beverage; its foes voiced criticism and warning.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • While the jollity may look a bit different from city to city, these global destinations keep the holiday cheer going year after year.
    — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • The finale is an ambiguous mix of jollity and agitation, with a piccolo shrieking above a militant march.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Chinatown is the perfect jollity for explorers and adventurous taste buds.
    — Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2021
  • Then, last November, just before the latest feast, Rustat’s name was quietly dropped from the jollities.
    — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
  • False jollity and overenthusiastic signifying do not fill in the gaps between ideas.
    — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • The jollity extends to the audience, which if Friday’s night’s crowd was indication is largely filled with family and friends of the large cast and who are prone to applaud and whoop at the end of every scene.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Both are also generally spared the over-emphatic jollity that Dehnert has evidently encouraged as a way of plowing through difficult passages of dialogue and forcing the weird jokes to bloom.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, vanityfair.com, 25 Oct. 2017

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