How to Use hilarity in a Sentence

hilarity

noun

• My attempt to carve the turkey was a source of great hilarity at the dinner table.
• Maybe not with the grace, whining, hilarity and eye-rolling that Sedaris does.
  — Patton Oswalt, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• Away from the hilarity, many wondered why the message took hours to be deleted.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 31 May 2017
• His deadpan persona is belied by the dry hilarity of his zingers.
  — Robert W. Butler, kansascity.com, 5 July 2017
• Last year there was a lot of giggling and general hilarity.
  — Elizabeth Kramer, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2017
• Add more jokes about survivalists and about Trump for his tough talk, and hilarity ensues.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• Oh, the hilarity of people who don’t know how to feel anything but who always know how every single thing should be done.
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 9 Aug. 2017
• As might be expected, hilarity (and plenty of banana cream frosting shenanigans) ensue.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 31 Aug. 2017
• Balls filled with extractable biscuits will test the panda’s cognitive chops, and will no doubt provide hours and hours of YouTube hilarity.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
• On the surface, Rick and Morty is a zany science fiction cartoon that often walks the line between hilarity and darkness.
  — Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 19 July 2017
• This show has a huge wind at its back before the curtain even goes up because of Lindsay-Abaire’s fine script, which just crackles with vitriol and hilarity.
  — Punch Shaw, star-telegram, 22 Aug. 2017
• Balls filled with extractable biscuits and the like will test the panda’s cognitive chops, and will no doubt provide hours and hours of YouTube hilarity besides.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
• And a funny thing happened amid the hilarity and humiliation: Bieber, big-mouthed, spoiled brat and bad boy, was humanized and made likable again.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
• There was great hilarity at Memorial Day cookouts around the country as people gathered around their phones to see how far the mighty Woods had fallen.
  — Tim Dahlberg, The Denver Post, 31 May 2017
• This kind of hilarity is fleeting and sometimes completely nonsensical.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• One of the most popular events of PrideFest returns for another night of competition and hilarity.
  — Zakiya McCummings, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 June 2017
• The headliner, Alonzo Bodden, also will headline the rest of that weekend at Hilarities.
  — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 22 June 2017
• Their quest to get touched for the very first time led to much hilarity.
  — Mara Reinstein, Vulture, 6 June 2024
• Watch the awkwardness and the hilarity in the video above.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 15 June 2018
• But the problems at VisitMexico.com drew howls of hilarity — and anger.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2020
• The memory of the hilarity that goes on in the clubhouse and in the dugout was something that was just amazing for me.
  — Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
• Kelly is heading back to The Voice on March 6, viewers are about to get a whole lot of hilarity from the singer.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 21 Dec. 2022
• But despite the hilarity of the scene, Graham was not a fan of her feline costars.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2022
• The cater waiters are as stuck in the unhappy present as the rest of us, and their misery is our hilarity.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• The whole of the series reached a stage of sad hilarity, really.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
• But [the film] really does touch on the comedy of life, the hilarity and tragedy.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• The memes always contain at least a grain of truth beneath the hilarity.
  — William Camargo, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• Everyone is on the same page, and that page is hilarity.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• But the hilarity is tempered by the Witch’s high drama and a dose of skeptical sense.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Heard agrees that the theme of family is central to this play, even with all its sometimes uproarious hilarity.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024