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Example sentences for: merriment

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The particularly fine bema of Phaedros (carved stage) depicting scenes from the life Dionysus — god of wine and merriment — is of Roman origin.
The error was a bottomless source of merriment to my Brazilian colleagues.
But parents couldn't very well deprive their kids of gifts or seasonal merriment, and Hanukkah benefited from convenient timing.
Penang Carnival: Month-long merriment takes place in the streets of Georgetown.
Nowadays, though, news of a freshly minted mental disorder--or, better yet, a new edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders containing many such novelties--tends to be an occasion for merriment.