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Example sentences for "gayly"

Lexicographically close words:
gaye; gayer; gayest; gayeties; gayety; gayn; gayne; gaz; gazabo; gaze
  1. In my childhood I was sometimes taken to the Learned Animals Theatre, and I remember a certain Madame de Pompadour, a principal role, filled by a gayly dressed old monkey; Touki-San reminds me of her.

  2. In their spare moments they cultivate, in little pots of gayly painted earthenware, dwarf shrubs and unheard-of flowers which are delightfully fragrant in the evening.

  3. The English vessels were newly painted, and gayly adorned with flags.

  4. The bodies of these people were tattooed, and they were gayly ornamented with feathers.

  5. Meanwhile the marquis gayly continued: "You see, I'm going to make a change in my mode of life.

  6. One thing is certain, the General did not lose his temper, but gayly continued his account of the way in which he had spent his time.

  7. I smiled round at her as gayly as I could with the collar-buttoning grimace on my face.

  8. It is at this season, too, that the pizzicarolo shops are gayly dressed in the manner so graphically described by Hans Andersen in his "Improvisatore.

  9. I have nothing to tempt the humming-bird, and he never visits me: only the yellow birds hop gayly from branch to branch, and the robins come sometimes.

  10. He was aware of nothing but the desire that she should smile gayly and admiringly at him again as she used to, making him feel Jovian.

  11. He smiled perfectly gayly and left the room.

  12. You will be strong as Cousin Percy in the spring, and will ride Floy as gayly as ever.

  13. So it happened that this Christmas the old Saxon hall was decked gayly with holly and ivy; mistletoe boughs hung temptingly from the dark old rafters, and the oaken floor was polished till it shone again.

  14. Gayly they sailed with colors flying, And now turn home again ashamed.

  15. So stirs, so yearns all nature, gayly decked, To honor ISAAC with her best array.

  16. The genus Coluber, to which belongs the famous Aesculap snake of central Europe, is represented among us by a series of large and gayly colored species.

  17. It is mostly among the small, quick-flying species, such as warblers and finches, that we find the gayly dressed ones.

  18. They all looked at the person mentioned and their glances were all gayly audacious.

  19. Swarthy women and children crowded gayly decorated fire-escapes, crowded the windows, and made movement impossible on the streets.

  20. For, see, I kiss you as gayly as when I believed you all heart and goodness.

  21. Through the windows the white-jacketed house-servants are rushing gayly to and from the dining-room.

  22. My step-mother stalks along panoplied in her excellences, and the feather waves and nods gayly at the passing student as he slinks away down by-streets.

  23. Papa, lifting his glass and drinking gayly to Tante Else, who glanced uneasily at her husband, he not yet having been, to her recollection, called a cistern.

  24. A sinner should always, I think, sin gayly or not at all.

  25. The prairies bordering on the river were gayly painted with innumerable flowers, exhibiting the motley confusion of colors of a Turkey carpet.

  26. In the morning they proceeded on their different ways, in style corresponding to their different fortunes: the one toiling painfully against the stream, the other sweeping down gayly with the Current.

  27. It was filled with women all gayly dressed, among them the princess, the splendor of whose appearance almost dazzled the eyes of the beholders.

  28. She waved her hand gayly and disappeared behind the pasture bars, as she spoke.

  29. There was a small wooden clock, like the timepiece in Susan's kitchen at home, whose pendulum swung gayly to and fro if only you helped it a little with your finger.

  30. I brought over my Noah's Ark," announced Phil, taking from under his arm the gayly painted little house upon which Susan's eyes had been fixed from the first.

  31. So far well," remarked he gayly to Hampden; "but what next?

  32. Nay, then, can it be that a young fellow who would gayly go forth against Goliath of Gath were he in these parts is craven before the bright eyes and nimble tongue of a little maid?

  33. Thaddeus thanked his grandfather for this information; and pleased that the young man, who had so much interested him, was a brave Briton, not in heart an enemy, he gayly and instantly repaired to his tent.


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