Example sentences for: lighthearted

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

  • The article you saw was this month's edition of Keeping Tabs, a lighthearted monthly column I write for Slate that sums up--and pokes fun at--what the supermarket tabloids have been writing about for the previous month.

  • Director Griffin Dunne and actors Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick meant to turn the darker sides of voyeurism and revenge into lighthearted fare; critics say they failed.

  • The most feared (in a good-natured, humorous way) teen news--other than the startlingly high number of "your child was killed in a car crash" (in a lighthearted, frolicsome way)--was this: Your adolescent is enjoying sex and drugs.

  • Relajando, or echando relajo (joking), can be lighthearted joking around or can be heavy in a serious way about a grave topic.

  • Egghead is a reasonably lighthearted look at recent developments in scholarship and academia.


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