jaunty

How To Use jaunty In A Sentence

• The music, meanwhile, is especially good, with jaunty a cappella tunes featuring nonsense singing and vocal percussion.
• All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles. The Wind Bloweth
• But the boy Mohammed being by me objurgated-for I remarked in him a jaunty demeanour combined with neglectfulness of ceremonies-saluted it sulkily, muttering the while hints about the holiness of his birthplace exempting him from the trouble of stooping. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• The use of the word tilted in the sentence "Thinking caps tilted at a jaunty angle". EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
• There is jaunty fairground music playing but one of the rabbits looks a bit mournful. The Sun
• It was light and breezy with jaunty incidental music and you could totally see what the producers had in mind. Times, Sunday Times
• There ain't many jaunty little anecdotes. Times, Sunday Times
• The jaunty incidental music that has accompanied her progress from bedroom, through kitchen, to surgery ceases. Times, Sunday Times
• A recent recruit from Liverpool who joined his Stafford Street office was welcomed with a few jaunty choruses from a sea shanty.
• Why does my hair, which is short on top and usually stands up in a jaunty sort of manner at home, go flat whenever I go to London?