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ADVERB
  1. in a joyous manner
    they shouted happily

How To Use gayly In A Sentence

  • O, you'll do!" the apothecary answered, with a laugh; but he said, in answer to an anxious question from the lady, "He mustn't be moved for an hour yet," and gayly pestled away at a prescription, while she resumed her office of grinding the pounded ice round and round upon her husband's skull. Complete March Family Trilogy
  • All that tenderest care and kindest heart could suggest was done to make me comfortable by my kind hosts; and the cavalcade of retainers, with which I had come out so gayly, followed in demure silence. Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen
  • The owner attached some provender to a rod, and suspended it over the animal's head. The animal, seeing these viands almost within reach, stepped gayly forward to consume them.
  • Take your fence, my beauties," he called gayly to the dogs, as they came bounding across the turnpike. The Battle Ground
  • `The birds above you gayly sing, The wildflowers brightly bloom, What is this awful, horrid thing Which seems to seal your doom? THE LAST GENIE
  • The parks are crowded with amusement seekers, some reading and playing games, some sewing, knitting, playing on musical instruments, dancing, sitting around tables in bevies eating, drinking, and gayly chatting. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
  • Scarcely had the feodary read, re-read, and then destroyed this secret and singular missive, when the ` ` Ho! hollo! '' of Her Grace the Princess 'outriders rang on the crisp December air, and there galloped up to the broad doorway of the manor-house, a gayly costumed train of lords and ladies, with huntsmen and falconers and yeomen following on behind. Historic girls; stories of girls who have influenced the history of their times,
  • The walker I would describe takes no note of distance; his walk is a sally, a bonmot, an unspoken jeu d'esprit; the ground is his butt, his provocation; it furnishes him the resistance his body craves; he rebounds upon it, he glances off and returns again, and uses it gayly as his tool. Winter Sunshine
  • I've come for you," he called gayly, and her face glorified with amazed joy. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date
  • The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire. Novels by Eminent Hands
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