How To Use Jauntily In A Sentence
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Her basket no longer swung jauntily from its place at the crook of her elbow, nor did she bounce gaily on the springy moss beneath her feet.
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His straw hat stuck jauntily on the side of his head.
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Head would come into the schoolroom, take his seat at the desk, and jauntily and quickly sweep five-daler bills [Footnote: Five daler, a little over 11/-- English money.] into his large, soft hat and thence into his pockets.
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth
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He then set up the flip chart in the corner of the room, and took a tweed trilby from the hat stand and arranged it jauntily on his head.
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And some boys still wore their caps with the wee dambrod pattern jauntily, and some had no caps to wear, and some were all daubed about with white bandages stained crimson, and none had hose, and few had brogues.
My War Experiences in Two Continents
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Some of the comic interludes had more pep—in "Being Small," a boy slave jauntily describes how he hides under his master's house and listens as the master reads the newspaper out loud—but others, like "I Listen," in which a self-described "old biddy" pie maker spies on her Union soldier customers, just fell flat.
An Artifact of Indulgence From Bernard Herrmann
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After checking to be certain all was in order, he turned jauntily to the forecastle, where the crew had stowed the ex-prisoner on a spare bunk.
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He had been a schoolboy again for the all too brief half hour beside the grey and gurly sea, and that youthfulness, that survived through all the patient suffering of his life and that seems to laugh out of the pages of his books to the last, was in the ascendant as he walked off jauntily townwards, amiably oblivious of the lecture his aunt gave him by the way.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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It has terrific moments, especially early on, often anticipating Fellini in tone and setting, but it is a bit too jauntily whimsical for us now.
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When it was daylight a racing droshky was brought up to the front door and the old man got jauntily on to it, pulling his big cap down to his ears; and, looking at him, no one would have said he was fifty-six.
The Witch, and other stories
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Drawn by the intrigue of all-night vigils in cemeteries and life-size skeletons propped jauntily in shop windows, tourists flock to Oaxaca and other points in Mexico for Day of the Dead.
Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos in Oaxaca
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Her basket no longer swung jauntily from its place at the crook of her elbow, nor did she bounce gaily on the springy moss beneath her feet.
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We were also greeted by a large man in rumpled chef's whites and a rakish black beret, a handkerchief knotted jauntily around his neck.
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Yes, but putting it in the middle of such a jauntily uninvolved album is a big mistake.
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She always felt sorry for Mamie Eisenhower whenever she was photographed in a hat perched over her jauntily sad, ringlet-like bangs.
Book World: 'Being Polite to Hitler' rounds out profile of an American family
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Behind them, upon the stern, was perched a hideous and beardless African, gorgeously arrayed in a dark tunic heavily laced with gold, a richly chased and adorned scimiter at his side, and a red fez jauntily set on one side of his misshapen head.
Paul Patoff
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What was that ponyskin bag doing there, swinging so jauntily from my arm?
Times, Sunday Times
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his hat sat jauntily on his full brown hair
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And she does so in language that is routinely sublime; much of her prose jauntily gnaws on the page (Clinton "had not changed her name after marrying her big-pawed law school swain"; Rachel Maddow succeeded "thanks to a combination of brisk thinking and galumphing good cheer"), causing this reader to alternately grin and scurry to a dictionary.
AJ Rossmiller: Brilliant New Book About Gender and 2008 Election
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It was no great full-riggd ship, nor majestic steamer, steering firmly through the gale, but seemd one of those superb little schooner yachts I had often seen lying anchord, rocking so jauntily, in the waters around New York, or up Long Island soundnow flying uncontrolld with torn sails and broken spars through the wild sleet and winds and waves of the night.
Edgar Poe’s Significance. Specimen Days
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The entire intricate construction covered more than one hectare of land, and the towers soared some 30 meters high, jauntily capped by Catalan flags and banners.
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Mom stands upright, her skis over her shoulder, a pair of climbing skins wrapped jauntily about her waist.
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I ain't limpin ', sir," the man answered respectfully, and, at a nod of dismissal from the mate, marched off jauntily along the deck with
CHAPTER V
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Janyn was strolling jauntily back towards his headland and the open fields, where he could fly the merlin on his creance without tangling her in trees to her confusion and displeasure.
The Devil's Novice