merry-making

Example Sentences

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Lula’s Garden Joy Garden: Send a sweet plant gift with this set that includes two merry-making succulents tucked into a gift box that serves as a planter.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

The Clauses could have been cast as merry-making sleuths in a St. Nick-and-Nora-style detective series.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2020

It’s not enough to spend five days a week with your dear colleagues; you must put in a few extra off-hours of chitchat and merry-making for good show.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2014

Evidence of sustained merry-making is perhaps hanging off our waists.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2014

Each season had its festivities, social and religious, when rich and poor met on something like equal ground in the rude merry-making.

From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Hibbert, Francis Aiden