gaiety

Example Sentences

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The general gaiety of the show doesn’t mean the photos here are slight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Just seven blocks over and five blocks up from where the shell casings hit the sidewalk, they gathered for gaiety in a glitzy ballroom.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2025

In 1842, the Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette wrote: "Such a scene of gaiety was never before witnessed on Salisbury Plain… Parties of gentlemen and elegantly dressed ladies were scattered about in all directions."

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2023

Beneath the gaiety and carousing ran an undercurrent of anguish: The country remains locked in a ferocious war with Russia.

From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2023

He was merry to see us, but his gaiety ceased when he saw our situation.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson