merry-making
Example Sentences
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White House merry-making would seem incomplete without some grumbling.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2022
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
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 people labored long enough to gain a bare subsistence for each passing day, and spent the rest of their time in dancing and merry-making, smoking, gossiping, and hunting.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
