Kyle spread his arms and tried to sound jaunty.

"Ready to leave orbit, Captain," Spock reported, sounding almost jaunty.

His version of several Shostakovich preludes manages to sound wicked and jaunty while somehow remaining, deep down, melancholic.

It revealed his gift for juggling the unbalanceable demands of life with children, and for sounding serenely jaunty as he did it.

"Right," she said, trying to sound jaunty.

Jag tried to sound jaunty, but it was clear even he was staggered by it all.

Carla was trying to sound jaunty, but the atmosphere in the hall was too thick with anxiety for that.

One of him dipped close; his voice didn't sound jaunty at all.

"I will continue to do the broadcast; on good days my voice will not always be like this," he said, straining to sound jaunty.

Franklin Roosevelt always sounded jaunty, even though poliomyelitis left him paralyzed from the waist down.