How to Use mirth in a Sentence

mirth

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  • Her clumsy attempt to cut the cake was the cause of much mirth.
  • The story of the maybe-couple’s lofty meet-cute had slipped the surly bonds of mirth.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 July 2018
  • The men laughed, but there was not much mirth behind it.
    — Tara Sutton, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2017
  • The swimming pool that was the source of so much off-camera mirth is now a koi pond.
    — Chris Gray, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018
  • With that tepid outlook, the broader market didn't share in any of the mirth.
    — WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But that’s the great thing about the search for deeper meaning that mirth invites.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The book’s mirth is laced with melancholy, its gags centered on pain.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Her heart may not be beating, but mirth still pumps through her veins.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • But such mirth and mayhem are not Mainstream Sellout‘s goal.
    — Charles Aaron, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Matching his stores of wisdom and mirth was his patience.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 14 June 2019
  • Thus India’s flop of a T20 World Cup campaign was greeted with plenty of mirth.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Lacking her usual mirth, Venus got past Elise Mertens in straight sets on Monday.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 July 2017
  • But even more of the mirth springs from the fact that, in this installment especially, size matters.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2018
  • Smiling for the cameras is a smile that doesn’t come from anywhere except a command; there’s no mirth in it.
    — Paul Newman, Time, 18 Oct. 2022
  • And when people think of Sparks — and Edgar Wright’s documentary reinforces this — there’s a sense of mirth a lot of the time.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Aug. 2021
  • And that darker-than-dark capper doesn’t do anything to erase the material along the way that does have some mirth to it.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The other plies mirth and throws one hell of an unreal supper party.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Leslie, we are heartbroken at your loss and will miss your mirth and your inimitable spirit.
    — Alexandra Del Rosariostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The reaction among diplomats and academics in Nicaragua ranged from mirth to outrage.
    — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 15 June 2018
  • King Rocker, on the other hand, is filled with scenes of Lee doubled over with simple, unironic mirth.
    — Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Venus soldiered through her first match but without her usual mirth.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • But Loathesome Lance menaces with more mirth than Dennis did.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The mirth that once marked America has been replaced by sneering and rudeness.
    — Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland, 30 July 2022
  • Since then, two photos of Hogan have surfaced from the Idaho State Archives, both of which give him equal measure of sadness and mirth.
    — Katherine Jones, idahostatesman, 1 June 2018
  • But there's a certain segment of the population that likes to cut that mirth with some more subversive fun.
    — Drew MacKie, Peoplemag, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Throughout Dixon’s film, Glenn-Copeland exudes an infectious mirth, like a person out of step with these grim times.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
  • No matter her twilight circumstances as the end neared, the judge was always full of life, mirth, laughter and sometimes song.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 18 July 2017
  • At the keyboard, Vanhoenacker has danced, and on his pages there is tumbling mirth indeed.
    — David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • But where Burroughs’ writing brimmed with dark cynicism, there’s mirth in Shafer’s style.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2022
  • The handle of the chrome tea kettle architect Andrew Wilkinson bought gets too hot to hold, a regular source of mirth for his wife.
    — Catherine Romano, WSJ, 27 July 2018

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