GAIETY in a Sentence

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1. To him, who was never gay but in her presence, her gaiety seemed plain proof of indifference.
2. With the tide of hysterical gaiety and excitement flooding the city, they rushed into matrimony.
3. She sought solitude, and avoided us when in gaiety and unrestrained affection we met in a family circle.
4. Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety.
5. She had not met his eyes once that evening and the hard bright gaiety with which she had treated him was frightening.

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 Meanings and Examples of GAIETY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gaiety
 n.  merry or joyful activity; festivity; bright color or showiness, as of dress; finery
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  To him, who was never gay but in her presence, her gaiety seemed plain proof of indifference.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  "You're letting your supper get cold," she admonished him with a pale gleam of gaiety.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Scarlett had an uneasy feeling that this man who was not received was the only one present who knew what lay behind her wild gaiety and that it was affording him sardonic amusement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  But to Scarlett, newly emerged from the chrysalis of widowhood, all the war meant was a time of gaiety and excitement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  As wet June days passed into a wetter July and the Confederates, fighting desperately around the entrenched heights, still held Sherman at bay, a wild gaiety took hold of Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  With the tide of hysterical gaiety and excitement flooding the city, they rushed into matrimony.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  She had not met his eyes once that evening and the hard bright gaiety with which she had treated him was frightening.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  Melanie was young but she had in her all the qualities this embattled remnant prized, poverty and pride in poverty, uncomplaining courage, gaiety, hospitality, kindness and, above all, loyalty to all the old traditions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  Even at this affair, which brought out the young smart set, the hunting squire set, the respectable intellectual set, and the solid financial set, they sat up with gaiety as with a corpse.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  Carol forswore herself; declared that Gopher Prairie had the color of Algiers and the gaiety of Mardi Gras.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  We must restore the last of the veterans to power and follow them on the backward path to the integrity of Lincoln, to the gaiety of settlers dancing in a saw-mill.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  She suddenly understood that they could be depended upon to laugh with her at Mrs. Bogart, and she now saw Juanita Haydock's gossip not as vulgarity but as gaiety and remarkable analysis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  Through all this restless July after she had tasted Bresnahan's disturbing flavor of travel and gaiety, she wanted to go, but she said nothing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  She sought solitude, and avoided us when in gaiety and unrestrained affection we met in a family circle.
2  Even when that weather was broken, and continuous rain set in for some days, no damp seemed cast over enjoyment: indoor amusements only became more lively and varied, in consequence of the stop put to outdoor gaiety.