How to Use gaily in a Sentence

gaily

adverb

• The boys all left for their virtual Italy, gaily waving their virtual berets and baguettes, and who was left behind to mow the lawn?
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 8 Mar. 2020
• The child races into the darkened room, past gleaming trays of dainty cookies and cups of punch, straight to the foot of a 15-foot pine, gaily covered in a thick blanket of white lights.
  — Melanie Radzicki McManus, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• Casanova gaily set off for southern Italy, expecting to live well there.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• The rainbow of colors in the carpet tiles from Flor form a gaily irregular pattern.
  — Elizabeth Anne Hartman, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
• The six girls were all wearing summer dresses, gaily colored.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
• Bob Cummings plays the psychiatrist who listens to this gaily macabre tale.
  — James Powers, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2018
• Across the gaping canyon, our gaily colored tent was clearly visible and appeared to be waving at us.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
• The east side of the field had been set apart for those in carriages, and soon from one end to the other, it was filled with vehicles of all descriptions gaily decorated in blue and gold and in white and red.
  — al, 22 Nov. 2021
• For good measure, spotlighted and spinning mirror-balls send dots of light gaily skittering around the room.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• The walls were gaily papered with Sunday supplements of the Mobile Register.
  — Kate Bolick, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
• Hot pink is the color of tropical Key West, from the garish bougainvillea spilling over every fence and wall to the petunias and hibiscus in its lush gardens to the houses and buildings themselves, gaily painted in every shade of pink.
  — Lee Smith, Southern Living, 19 June 2018
• The left’s decision to withdraw from conversations about genetics and social outcomes leaves a vacuum that the right has gaily filled.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• The interior of jet was gaily bedecked with Christmas decorations, and flight attendants were adorned with reindeer antlers and twinkling lights.
  — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 24 Dec. 2017
• Peer into their forbidding black hoods and gaily stitched pieces of hot-pink woolen felt inside invite unexpected visual caresses.
  — Christopher Knightart Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2022
• The ceilings are bolstered by beams of palm and eucalyptus, or geometrically coffered with wood strips in a traditional south Moroccan technique called tataoui or in one room gaily painted in the colorful Berber style.
  — Joshua Levine, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
• To dress cheerfully and becomingly is considered as an attempt to affect youth; to converse gaily an unsuitable effort to attract admirers.
  — Lisa Birnbach, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• These incentives have spawned a meandering armada of live-aboard cabin cruisers, barges, narrowboats, and other gaily painted scows now afloat on Britain’s inland waterways, some just barely.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• Here the Carnival maskers don gaily colored costumes and mount horses to ride through the countryside gathering 'donations' of chickens and other ingredients for the gigantic community gumbo-cooking which occurs that night.
  — NOLA.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• Subsequent investigations transform her into a rather more Nora Ephron-ish figure; few New Yorkers are more gaily, affirmatively opinionated.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024