merry-making
Example Sentences
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White House merry-making would seem incomplete without some grumbling.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2022
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 nineteenth of May was appointed for merry-making.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.