merry
Example Sentences
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"I do my best, but I can't slow down this merry go round."
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
In a stressful, often cruel environment, it felt less like a performance, and more like a merry rebuke.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Motin had led jurors on a "merry dance" in his evidence, which was an "exercise in inventive distraction", Mr Justice Baker said.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
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 • Feb. 4, 2026
‘Here all are enemies of the one Enemy, and yet I must walk blind, while the sun is merry in the woodland under leaves of gold!’
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing merry
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