make merry
Example Sentences
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Unable to make merry at Christmastime, people embraced Hogmanay instead.
From National Geographic • Dec. 27, 2023
We eat, drink and make merry as if we'll be dead in only a few years.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2021
I won’t lie; it’s a little dispiriting to head into a second consecutive holiday season uncertain whether it’s wise, epidemiologically speaking, to make merry.
From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2021
City will make changes, though one of them will be Kevin De Bruyne, so Leipzig won’t be getting a free pass to make merry.
From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2021
And then Aragorn stood up, and all the host arose, and they passed to pavilions made ready, to eat and drink and make merry while the day lasted.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
