Example sentences for: light-hearted

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

  • This slightly enlarged version of Paul Dickson's Names , published by Delacorte Press in 1986, is a light-hearted collection of names that the author considers to be interesting for one reason or another.

  • Paul Dickson has every right to approach names in a light-hearted way, but Juliet's question, What's in a name? can be answered in many more intellectually satisfying ways than this.

  • A lecture of mine was once described in a newspaper as “light-headed,” instead of “light-hearted” (unless the reporter was being mean-spirited.

  • In Wordspinner , some of the quizzes are mere vocabulary tests, though couched in light-hearted utterances; for example, at Graffiti II the reader is asked to define the underscored words in sentences like “Clark Kent was a transvestite” and “Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry,” though one could think of a lot of regrettable actions for which vasectomy would be a feeble excuse.

  • And John Gay's greatest but much more light-hearted work was called The Beggar's Opera (1728), singular, not plural.


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