merry-making
Example Sentences
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In time, entrepreneurs set up bigger tents, brought in pianos for merry-making and “good, clean, cheap fun, even on Saturday nights, when the stevedores, oil drillers, and sailors wandered in from Santa Monica …”
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2022
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
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
In harmony with this was his uniform seriousness, gravity, and becoming dignity of manner; and even in his merry-making humor, as instanced in describing Hayne leading the South Carolina militia, he never stooped.
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
