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Examples of gaily in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Passengers stood at the windows, waving gaily. Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2021 With the Meyerson gaily festooned for the holiday season, there were lighting effects and some projections. Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2022 All the elements to the left of plutonium in the periodic table are quite willing to share electrons with each other, gaily forming compounds hither and thither; the elements to the right, far less so. Valerie Brown, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2018 The movie is a beastly thing, and proud of it—a gaily sadistic kerfuffle, from which all traces of tenderness have been expunged. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022 See all Example Sentences for gaily 

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“Gaily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaily. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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