merry

Example Sentences

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I imagined that my mother had looked a lot like Ida with her black hair and merry smile.

From Literature

In a stressful, often cruel environment, it felt less like a performance, and more like a merry rebuke.

From The Wall Street Journal

There was no merrier illustration of the varieties of human experience than this runaway French hit, which was, like “Don Quixote,” translated into English by Smollett in 1748.

From The Wall Street Journal

Motin had led jurors on a "merry dance" in his evidence, which was an "exercise in inventive distraction", Mr Justice Baker said.

From BBC

And if you had that kind of a mother — or better, if you are that kind of a mother — the merry derangement O’Hara brought to her performances was soul-satisfying.

From Salon