merriments
Example Sentences
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If as much by wishful thinking as by design, it had both the U.S. women’s and men’s national teams on center stage in each of those merriments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2019
Yet despite the merriments, Christmas can be a stressful time for presidents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2015
For to what purpose were it to clog our stomachs with dainties, junkets, and the like stuff, unless our eyes and ears, nay whole mind, were likewise entertained with jests, merriments, and laughter?
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
The solemnity of Good-Friday ends, it appeared, at ten o'clock on Saturday morning, and from that time the merriments of Easter have their commencement.
From The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
He must have thought of Uncle Tom and the bells of Nottingham on this clear night of lovely airs and out-of-door merriments.
From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by H. Winthrop Pierce
