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
We find, therefore, in surveying the holy day customs of yore, signs of much merry-making of this kind, and particularly of the dedication of special viands to certain occasions.
From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews
