merry
Example Sentences
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His group of merry men held meetups at coffee shops, beer halls and the zoo, hosted holiday hootenannies and even offered CPR classes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026
Don’t conflate Fama and his merry band of economists at the business school with the Chicago School of Economics, practitioners in the university’s economics department led by another Nobel laureate, Milton Friedman.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
Chesterton nailed it when he said “the great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, for all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Corrigan told jurors he was "merry" but "not drunk".
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
Tomás held all the cards in one pudgy hand while he stared at Lupita out of eyes that were no longer merry.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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