Example sentences for: merry

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

  • The biggest was that Gove had gone his merry way in producing what he considered to be a lexicon of the language but with little thought for those who were to use it: no one could call the MWIII “user-friendly” (certainly not in 1961, when, as far as I know, the expression had not yet gained currency):

  • Which doesn't mean you need to eat, drink, and be merry tonight.

  • The coinages and cadences of the Tyndale Bible--"eat, drink, and be merry"; "a fool's paradise"; "fight the good fight"; "suffer the children"; "the salt of the earth"; "in his right mind"; "the powers that be"--and of the King James Version have for three centuries served both as psychic libretto and as percussion section for English speakers everywhere.

  • If not, the party's over, making this the second failed Mars mission in three months, following the September disappearance of the Mars Climate Orbiter due to a merry mix-up over that pesky metric system.

  • I came back from lunch in such a merry mood (and, no, the lunch wasn't the three-martini kind), brimming over with joy that we live in a land so bountiful that the Republicans in Congress can give away $792 billion.


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