merrymaking

Example Sentences

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But this is a gift guide for you, our readers, and is written with revelry — meaning merrymaking, noisy partying, dancing until the lights come up — in mind.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

In big cities, the merrymaking involving the playful splashing of water took place at designated high-security pavilions.

From Washington Times • Apr. 17, 2023

And, oddly enough — and so beautiful — they’re in some of these really dense archives at the Getty, just merrymaking, hanging out with their homegirls and Duke Ellington.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022

She added that people were so exhausted and there was no "merrymaking".

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2022

Kit and Judith, each lost in her own thoughts, stood together near the wall, unable to join in the merrymaking.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare