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Example sentences for "gaily"

Lexicographically close words:
gags; gaie; gaieties; gaiety; gaif; gain; gaine; gained; gainer; gainers
  1. I only translated them," said L'Isle, bowing gaily to her.

  2. This obstacle overcome, Mrs. Shortridge was delighted, and talked gaily of her arrangements and anticipations for the appointed night.

  3. Lord Strathern was seated by a larger table at the other end of the room, conversing gaily with his fellow-travelers from Elvas, and waiting Sir Rowland's leisure.

  4. But Carmela appeared to have just reached a highly interesting clause of her conversation with the smart and enterprising Nino, who was pushing his suit gaily with the listening girl.

  5. Some of the little people gazed at him with earnest attention, their heads slightly thrown back, their hands clasped behind them--others danced gaily with one another.

  6. De Sterny accompanied him to the door of the apartment, and called gaily after him, over the banisters.

  7. My guide was gaily attired in bright red tight acrobat breeches, with buttons up the side, and a jacket like a waistcoat, with sleeves so close-fitting that I suppose he seldom took the trouble to undress himself.

  8. Louise met him at the station, and he fancied that her expression, too, although she welcomed him gaily enough, was a little anxious.

  9. It was gaily jigging out the tune of "The Girl I Left Behind Me.

  10. Once, exploring around the mill, she entered a barn, and found there an old caravan that once had been gaily painted and now stood in all the shabbiness of departed glory.

  11. Poor little Amelia did undoubtedly suffer on that last day, when she sat among the others gaily clad, and looked down at her own common little skirts.

  12. David picked handfuls of berries and cast them gaily into the pail.

  13. Then she forcibly inserted her fingers under Fraeulein's hard and resisting arm, and trotted gaily beside her.

  14. Then she skips gaily on across the grass: "Says May: 'I am a boy!

  15. She put her handkerchief to her eyes, but she smiled gaily through her tears.

  16. But not before he had seen, out of the corner of his eye, Virginia, sailing gaily along on her black mare, just behind him.

  17. There are girls in gaily striped skirts selling fruit.

  18. They wrap themselves up in warm furs, and spring into the pretty sleighs to which gaily decked horses are harnessed.

  19. Colonel Campbell took the pipes with him, gaily decorated with ribbons and a flag.

  20. They did not fail, as they passed gaily by the sluggish reptile, to express their surprise at his unusually tardy movements, and at the circumstance of his being apparently almost subdued by the first obstacle that presented itself.

  21. Almost gaily he swung her in a great wavering circle--and the wind was again in his face, hating him, pounding him, trying to get under the wings and turn the machine turtle.

  22. There were foreign consuls in their uniforms, and many Filipina women, with pretty manners and dainty ways, some in their native dress, which is so quaint and gaily coloured.

  23. On this particular evening, the oval park was crowded with picturesque people, almost all the men in white, the soldiers in their trig khaki, and the women in their gaily coloured dresses and panuelas.

  24. They seemed to enjoy this very much, and later, still to the music, marched gaily off to get their rations.

  25. Indeed, they are the most gaily dressed people I have ever seen, and their brown skins set off the vivid yellows and greens and reds and magentas and purples of which their trousers and jackets and turbans and handkerchiefs are made.

  26. The sunlight filtered through the trees upon the barbaric costumes, while the gaily dressed women stood behind the men and peered over them.

  27. This launch, which was gaily decked with flags, was manned by convicts, the engineer himself being under a sentence of nineteen years for murder.

  28. Passing through suburbs of nipa houses standing up on their stilts in the moonlight, we came to a plaza gaily illuminated, and to our destination, a mansion approached by a triumphal arch.

  29. That done, Mrs. Clive took care the victory should not be lost to her for want of pains to gaily secure it.

  30. Foote attended the funeral there, and on his return to town, he gaily remarked that he "had seen Holland shoved into the family oven!

  31. A pen, gaily ornamented with artificial flowers, was put into her trembling hand, to sign the engagement for life, on which she was about to enter.

  32. Far ahead of us our cyclists bowled gaily along in the forest avenues, all of us being sheltered from the wind.

  33. Conversation flowed easily and gaily as at the château itself.

  34. She waved gaily as she passed the porch not noticing the stranger who was somewhat screened by hanging vines, and then she turned into the lane which led to the stable.

  35. That trusty young bachelor who rides so gaily by the old knight's side, and who regards him with love and reverence, is his son, a brave young knight of twenty years of age, as we guess.

  36. She came back to her seat--a seat which faced that window--and gaily pledged the two men with her glass.

  37. Betty Siggs, however, was in too good a humour to heed any such warning; she gaily locked up the house, extinguished the lights and pushed Toby upstairs to bed.

  38. Any deviation from the broad and easy path which she trod so gaily meant personal discomfort.

  39. It was a scene of wondrous and barbaric splendor, for the men and beasts from the south were gaily caparisoned in rich colors, in marked contrast to the gray uniformed forces of the frontier, with which I had been familiar.

  40. The streets were gaily decorated, and the people were loud in their loyal and joyful demonstrations.

  41. Chairman of the Hospital, and other official persons, received the Royal visitors in a gaily decorated tent.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gaily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.