Example sentences for: merrily

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

  • Contrary to the views of sentimentalists, a people long conditioned to satirical, hard-edged personal names like Stumbling Bear , who have suffered for five centuries the misnomer Indians and who once merrily referred to whites as Long Noses and Palefaces , are hardly likely to be mortified by Redskinsor devastated by Braves . Although currently considered the most glaring of all Indian team names, Redskins actually predates its New World usage by some twenty-five centuries or so.

  • I was borne along very merrily, and in fact wanted to do little else but read the novel until I was finished.

  • The Post doesn't make the point, but this is all too typical: Something abstract called the "corporation" is fined while the actual executives (think what that word means: people who get things done) go merrily along.

  • I think of "Good Thing Going," his wonderfully brooding ballad from Merrily , with its expert title resolution:

  • One doesn't wish to stand silently by while others merrily exchange misinformation about Albania, the NYPD, and computer viruses.


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