gaily

Example Sentences

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But she has skipped gaily upon each milestone, obscuring the nature and means of that progress.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2024

The scene in question shows her determination to get them on her page: Julia gaily waltzes into the offices of WGBH, cake plate in hand and ready to negotiate with a side of sugar.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2022

Texts from the Karnak temple complex near Luxor describe baboons as “announcing” Ra while “they dance for him, jump gaily for him, sing praises for him, and shout out for him.”

From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2021

The actors now take turns reading from letters, transcripts and news accounts without milking the expressive techniques so gaily demonstrated in the first half of the play.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019

However, when they found six black-mustached seals, sitting barking in the middle of the room, with twelve penguins parading gaily around them in a square, they felt better.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater