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 the winter, when the snow fell, there was merry-making between these villages.

From The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods by Paine, Albert Bigelow