(1) Above their noisy cries, I can just make out a tiny goldcrest delivering his jauntily rhythmic song by the church gate.
(2) She jauntily crossed the room as Kelly tried to explain what it all meant for the wider region.
(3) Zane, also favouring black, also 16, was wearing a lot more makeup than Lydia, and had finished off his outfit with a top hat whose brim was jauntily stuck with Broadway ticket stubs.
(4) Jauntily yellow-jacketed stewards are flogging soft toys, emblazoned with the words VAMPIRES SUCK MY BLOOD in gothic script.
(5) Arsène Wenger has talked, with no little resignation, of how he must live in a “permanent tribunal”, his existence marked by kneejerk reactions and the extremes of emotion but this was an occasion when the verdict was jauntily positive.
(6) Still, distaste for the idea of what used to be jauntily called Coalition 2:0 runs deep.
(7) The national anthems Spain's skips along jauntily, in a faintly juntaesque way, while the Russian national anthem has enough testosterone to put hairs on any teen's chest.
(8) The group of six, caught on CCTV as they strode jauntily through Gatwick airport ahead of a Thomas Cook flight to Turkey on 8 October last year, ended up fighting for Islamic State (Isis).
(9) But it isn't just children who have found themselves drawn to the show's Pythonesque sketches, which skip jauntily through the books' trademark themes such as the Rotten Romans and Groovy Greeks up to the Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians.
(10) She makes tea in the shiny clean kitchen of the holiday-let flat – a place she describes jauntily as “her dungeon” as she leads me down through the cold corridors, but which is remarkably mundane, with clean, white walls, a couple of small bedrooms and a smell of clean laundry.
Jaunty
Definition:
(superl.) Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few passersby, some in fancy dress ahead of Purim holiday, stopped to the read the signs: a man wearing a jaunty green Robin Hood cap with a red feather; some men in judo outfits.
(2) The score has a barrel-organ or carousel jauntiness, and sometimes sounds like an old air you once gathered peascods to.
(3) The theme tune alone, a jaunty bit of jazz-rock in a call-and-response format, can induce a mental state that, on a winter morning when the sun will not rise for another two hours, is doomy and tinged with moral collapse.
(4) A photo of Anne with her elder sister and parents out together in May 1941 near their home in Amsterdam is a poignant reminder of the freedom they lost, while a jaunty image of Anne, taken by her sister Margot, shows her leaning over the balcony of a block of flats and letting her hair fly.
(5) Gatherer found five blocs operating between 1999 and 2005, and he gave them jaunty names.
(6) The clinic's wheelchairs have white plastic seats cut from garden furniture, lending an incongruous jauntiness to the wretchedness.
(7) The Advertising Standards Authority took an earlier, equally jaunty ad off the air , ruling that the "light-hearted presentation of the ad was likely to mislead about the nature and implications of the product".
(8) Jaunty tailored jackets, harlequin coats and trousers with zips at the ankle were styled with high-collared printed shirts and ponytails.
(9) The PA system should blast out a bit of jaunty piano, but doesn't.
(10) Succinct tales of fracture and failure, and thumbnail sketches of lonely desperation, positively revelling in the flotsam of American life are all set to jaunty rock and ragtime rhythms.
(11) There she is on the back of the jacket, beaming out from a photo in which she’s dressed up like a naval captain, complete with jaunty cap and pipe, her gaze trained on some far-off horizon.
(12) Beetlejuice is darker and weightier and definitely ends on more jaunty Harry Belafonte songs than The Dark Knight Rises.
(13) The three Alexander McQueen outfits that made the most front pages from the Duchess of Cambridge's recent tour wardrobe were: a sky blue belted knee-length coat, accessorised with navy round-toe suede shoes and a matching clutch bag; a demure dove grey coat with a jaunty grey hat; and a ballet-shoe pink peplum top and skirt, which the duchess wore with LK Bennett courts and pearl drop earrings.
(14) If you still remember General Pinochet's jaunty arrival at Santiago airport, despite his alleged senility and collapsing health, take heart.
(15) Forlan is dropping deep and causing a lot of trouble, his playmaker's hat wedged onto his turnip at a jaunty angle.
(16) The Christmas tree in the reception of what used to be Mark Group, an energy company with more than 1,000 staff, looks jaunty enough but underneath it there are barely a handful of presents.
(17) There are isolated jaunty moments: a musical duet with an existentialist banjo; some amusing homilies written on cards and distributed to the audience.
(18) Give me honky tears,' he howls on 'South Side of the World', a song that manages to sound jaunty and angry, and as close to political as he has yet come.'
(19) 4.57pm BST The Italian tune passes off without a hitch, a jaunty number with which the players sing along merrily, though Pirlo, as ever, seems to be putting to be putting in less effort than everyone else - but he probably has the voice of Pavarotti.
(20) Many more pop star national anthem reviews here : Brazil have a wonderfully jaunty national anthem that climbs up and down the scales with the agility of a young Jairzinho.