merry-making
Example Sentences
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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
The Clauses could have been cast as merry-making sleuths in a St. Nick-and-Nora-style detective series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2020
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
The May Day merry-making was stopped and even the Gild festival prohibited.
From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Francis Aiden Hibbert