How to Use hilarity in a Sentence

hilarity

noun
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  • My attempt to carve the turkey was a source of great hilarity at the dinner table.
  • Their quest to get touched for the very first time led to much hilarity.
    — Mara Reinstein, Vulture, 6 June 2024
  • Watch the awkwardness and the hilarity in the video above.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 15 June 2018
  • But the problems at VisitMexico.com drew howls of hilarity — and anger.
    — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Maybe not with the grace, whining, hilarity and eye-rolling that Sedaris does.
    — Patton Oswalt, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • The dire circumstances of these young, vibrant men and the hilarity of the ice dumps struck a chord and a movement was born.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
  • The memory of the hilarity that goes on in the clubhouse and in the dugout was something that was just amazing for me.
    — Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • Kelly is heading back to The Voice on March 6, viewers are about to get a whole lot of hilarity from the singer.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 21 Dec. 2022
  • But despite the hilarity of the scene, Graham was not a fan of her feline costars.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The cater waiters are as stuck in the unhappy present as the rest of us, and their misery is our hilarity.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Pushing someone down the stairs is the height of hilarity.
    — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
  • The whole of the series reached a stage of sad hilarity, really.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • But [the film] really does touch on the comedy of life, the hilarity and tragedy.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The memes always contain at least a grain of truth beneath the hilarity.
    — William Camargo, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • Everyone is on the same page, and that page is hilarity.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Away from the hilarity, many wondered why the message took hours to be deleted.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 31 May 2017
  • But the hilarity is tempered by the Witch’s high drama and a dose of skeptical sense.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Very mild hilarity ensues, as Zoey proves hapless on the slopes, and in other ways doesn’t live up to her billing.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Check out the video above to see Bryant's hilarity on display in tandem with the gullibleness of these baseball fans.
    — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Somehow, the two of them turn the classroom into a dance floor, and hilarity ensues.
    — Sam Tornow, Billboard, 19 June 2018
  • Renfield suckles from the same vein, but gets barely a drop of hilarity from it.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Journey back to the original set and source of so much hilarity.
    — John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Being a French girl in New York has its moments of hilarity.
    — Mathilde Ollivier, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 May 2019
  • Thanks for your love, friendship and for your hilarity.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 13 Mar. 2019
  • Just like Harry, Twitter users saw the hilarity in what happened, too, and were quick to have some fun about what happened.
    — Allie Gemmill, Teen Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Some of Mike’s writing is about the hilarity of the mundane, the hilarity of the privileged.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 14 June 2023
  • But it could be argued there was more substance to the two wins than just opening-weekend hilarities.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Her character’s hilarity arose from the path that her arched eyebrow traversed as Lucille shut the door on one of her sons.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Add more jokes about survivalists and about Trump for his tough talk, and hilarity ensues.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The production isn’t quite able to sustain the hilarity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2021

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