Example sentences for: hilarity

How can you use “hilarity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Imagine the hilarity in Premiere 's legal department when the magazine received a letter from Peter Kaufman's lawyer objecting to the "wee-willy" passage and hinting at legal action.

  • We must move ineluctably to a consideration of perfectly reputable words which, having acquired sexual connotations, cause adolescent—and often adult— hilarity, even when read by a person of only mildly prurient mind.

  • In this same vein, the mirthless Milton adds his bit to the general hilarity of nations when, in describing Mount Etna in Book I of Paradise Lost (lines 236-7) he penned

  • Jerry Falwell's outing of Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby, was widespread scorn and hilarity.

  • But Schickel does seem to see him as some sort of Delphic oracle, and his attempts to translate the man's monosyllabic pronouncements make for hilarity: " 'Women,' Clint says, a sort of sad befuddlement in his tone, 'always want to know what you're thinking.


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