How to Use joie de vivre in a Sentence
joie de vivre
noun- She is admired for her energy and joie de vivre.
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There’s a lot of joie de vivre.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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There’s a lot of joie de vivre.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
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Because the way her love life is rolling is very much giving joie de vivre.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN, 26 Dec. 2021
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Williams is attracted not to her beauty but to her joie de vivre.
—Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
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His joie de vivre was matched by his mission to create a notable work of art.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
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That context makes the song’s sense of joie de vivre even more meaningful.
—Kat Bein, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2019
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On the other hand, Yackley feels her joie de vivre helps keep her mind sharp.
—Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2025
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Paris, though, lit up with post-war joie de vivre, was the perfect antidote.
—Fiona Donovan, Vanity Fair, 30 Dec. 2025
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Out of that comes a kind of joie de vivre and musicality on my part.
—Chris Maggio, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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The true appeal of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon lies in its joie de vivre.
—Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
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For all his joie de vivre and bluster, Willy is a man out of his depth in playing himself.
—WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
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Thank you for all of your stories, your humor, your kindness, joie de vivre and your friendship.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2022
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Meanwhile their own immersion in the city’s joie de vivre would ease the way to a downfall of their own.
—Timothy Schaffert, WSJ, 23 July 2021
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Kathryn's team worked closely with the designer to source products that echoed that style and joie de vivre.
—Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 14 Mar. 2019
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This joie de vivre in being bad is evident from beginning to end.
—Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 10 June 2022
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The tendency is to think of Matisse as all about surface and joie de vivre.
—Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
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People used to flock here years ago for the sun and the fun and the joie de vivre and the simple, colorful life.
—NBC News, 22 May 2020
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And the joie de vivre doesn’t have to be confined to the aforementioned regions of the country.
—Colleen McMillar, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Dec. 2020
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Maybe the piece that encapsulates joie de vivre for you isn’t the Roly Poly.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2020
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There’s a sort of innocence and playfulness to both of them and a joie de vivre as well as pure desire.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 12 Feb. 2025
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Well, Alana has Kidman’s rosy cheeks and apparent joie de vivre.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
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He's been running around spying with a Tony Vlachos-esque joie de vivre.
—EW.com, 26 Oct. 2023
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When bedecking your bed in the form of easy-breezy sheets, though, Peacock will take on a summery kind of joie de vivre.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 3 June 2025
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The biggest issue seems to be the parties, however — ironic for a leader known for his joie de vivre.
—Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
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Nine years later lots of things have changed – but Portland still brings its own distinctive joie de vivre to a snowstorm.
—oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
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There is also a distinct joie de vivre embedded in the brand’s DNA.
—Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2026
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In an Insta age, that kind of joie de vivre is remarkably effective.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
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One of the things about Jacobs that Dupont most identifies with is the designer’s joie de vivre.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2023
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On each occasion, we were seated at the same table and I was struck both times at his friendliness and joie de vivre.
—Akhil Reed Amar, Time, 29 June 2018
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