Example sentences for: merrily

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • On one occasion, as our deliberations were drawing to a close after many months, we came to a particularly niggling point of dispute regarding the cost of some phase of the project--I have forgotten which--and, in frustration and exasperation, I burst out with, You must realize that if you want to earn a penny, you've got to spend a penny!, whereupon, much to my consternation, all those present fell about laughing merrily.

  • Politicians might fault the decade for its legacy of permissiveness and the pursuit of too much happiness, but Apple blithely urges us to "think different," while Fruitopia's graffiti-strewn magic bus rolls merrily across the screen.


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