Example Sentences

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The familiar wonder and mirthfulness of his voice has a note of rueful loss.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2019

It was in that spirit of mourning and mirthfulness, says Robin, that Alan Thicke’s loved ones gathered for a memorial celebration last Sunday in Carpinteria.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2016

In the film, Black brought a slobby mirthfulness to the role — you believed him when he said he had a hangover, and you naturally averted your eyes when his flesh spilled over his jeans.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2015

Oh, praised be the beauty of this earth; the beauty, and the bloom, and the mirthfulness thereof.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Her eyes were now sparkling with merriment; delicate dimples of mirthfulness played hide and seek over chin and cheeks, despite the dignified efforts to maintain a sober mien as became one of the holy Sisterhood.

From A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico by Jabez, Brother