GAY in a Sentence

gay

 a.  brightly colored and showy

 a.  full of or showing high-spirited merriment

1  To him, who was never gay but in her presence, her gaiety seemed plain proof of indifference.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I

2  She set the lamp on the table, and he saw that it was carefully laid for supper, with fresh doughnuts, stewed blueberries and his favourite pickles in a dish of gay red glass.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV

3  But he was the first man in months who had displayed an interest in her, and she threw him a gay smile.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

4  Talk always turned to war now, all conversations on any topic led from war or back to war--sometimes sad, often gay, but always war.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII

5  Atlanta was no longer the gay, the desperately gay place she had loved.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX

6  Some were sad and silent, others gay and contemptuous of hardships, but the thought that it was all over and they were going home was the one thing that sustained them.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX

7  Scarlett turned green eyes on Mammy, eyes which were feverishly gay, eyes which looked like the bad little girl of the good old days Mammy sighed about.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII

8  It had been a gay beautiful place and now--there was a large United States flag floating over it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

9  When he climbed into the buggy and took the reins from her and threw her some impertinent remark, she felt young and gay and attractive again, for all her worries and her increasing bulk.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

10  What fun to be with people who were gay and rich and not genteelly poor like Atlanta people.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII

11  They were gay, wealthy people, very much like Rhett's New Orleans friends, elegant of dress, free with their money, vague as to their antecedents.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX

12  The air was so soft, the sun so gentle, Ashley's face so gay, his talk so unconstrained that her heart leaped with happiness.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII

13  Oh, for another girl, pretty and gay and willful and full of laughter, not like the giddy-brained Ella.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX

14  She was so like you, so willful, so brave and gay and full of high spirits, and I could pet her and spoil her--just as I wanted to pet you.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII

15  She remained long in her sitting-room, where the embers were crumbling to cold grey, and the lamp paled under its gay shade.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14

1  The New York gay action group "Queer Nation" recently outed an American Congressman.

2  The problem seemed particularly acute among young gay men and gay men of color.

3  The report assesses the impact of Aids on the gay community.

4  The country is gay with all colors of bunting.

5  I had arrived at the heart of the gay section.

6  The quality of life for gay men has improved over the last two decades.

7  His sexual orientation was a lot more gay than straight.

8  He tended to stick to the relative safety of San Francisco's gay ghetto.

9  I have proven that you slander the gay community.

10  When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark; And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark; But, when the tide rises and sharks are around.

11  The air of the moors, the freedom of home, the dawn of prosperity, acted on Diana and Mary's spirits like some life-giving elixir: they were gay from morning till noon, and from noon till night.

12  Still, a surge in litigation is likely, says Glen Lavy, a lawyer for a group that opposes gay marriage.

13  By her simplicity, gay prattle, and efforts to please, inspired me, in return, with a degree of attachment sufficient to make us both content in each other's society.

14  The Sochi Olympics have been tainted by myriad controversies during the buildup – from gay rights to corruption – and many expected the Games themselves to be similarly disastrous, with concerns about the intrusiveness of security, the absence of fans and shoddy construction work.