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Sentence Examples The Dutch greeted the euro with a national party, champagne at bank queues and general merriment. The festival of merriment and joy of sharing again had hotels and shops lining up some exciting events and gifts. How I'd like to make a post full of joy and merriment but there doesn't seem to be any available at the moment. Then it is time for mirth and merriment, as he fulfils all his little wishes. Walking down the corridors of Pittodrie Stadium is like running a gauntlet of mirth and merriment. Much fun, merriment and large amounts of alcohol consuming will be the order of the day. It is a night of singing, dancing, lighthearted merriment, and fortune telling. His eyes sparkled with merriment as he raised a dark brow in Hayden's direction. In this land where the girl, Tana is her name, brought me, it is unceasing merriment and joy. Of all deceptive things on earth nothing is so deceptive as mere gaiety and merriment. That would send everyone into laughter and merriment which would last the rest of the night. Mary noted that William laughed a great deal, and that Clara's eyes shone with the lively merriment. A Dani tribeswoman beckons to a male foreign tourist and carries him on her shoulders to liven up the merriment. But his quick wink, the twist on his lips, the merriment of success as a glint in his eyes, told her specifically who. Much of this economic merriment can be ascribed to the miracle of our virtually bloodless revolution and the government's macro-economic policy. If all that mulled wine and merriment gives you indigestion, how about a touch of wartime austerity to bring a bit of balance? Eschewing the traditional end-of-term merriment the night before, slogging through the mud can hardly compare to bopping in the pub. The news that all 65 members have been suspended for alleged branch stacking is causing much merriment throughout rival parties. There will be plenty of merriment as well, with bon-bons, Christmas carols and games rounding off celebrations. Whence our merriment came to a full and complete stop, we settled down around a freshly baked apple cobbler. Show More Sentences There's a kind of staidness and a kind of fear, I suppose, of playfulness, of merriment, of the colloquial and the demotic. Unlike the dwarfs, Bilbo cherishes friendship and merriment over gold and wealth. They do not object to the gorgios looking on, but they would rather they did not join in the merriment. As an unabashed keeper of the Feast of Christmas, I choose to rub shoulders with the forces of jollification, merriment, and solemnity. He shook his head and laughed in merriment as if to smooth Big Freddie's ruffled feathers. In response to each new sally of witticism, the Indians would break into uncontrollable fits of merriment. It might seem natural that merriment goes with wealth beyond the dreams of avarice but that, when you think about it, is hardly ever the case. Children hoot in merriment as they ride their water scooters or turn into birds gliding across the sky while they para-sail. A bhangra by children to highlight the merriment of Baisakhi won a generous round of applause. Kingsley is not much of a caperer, and the few scenes of physical merriment seem strained. With Liam on the microphone it will be a night packed with fun and merriment. Legend has it that his ancestors used to make these signs for fun and merriment around the nomadic village. Merry and Pippin develop strongly, as they do in the book, but still hold their mirth and merriment. Still, enough of this mirth and merriment, just because it's Friday doesn't mean we should go to pieces. Much merriment and fun to be had by all accounts but not many appropriate partners to be found. Her eyes were also the same shade of blue, sparkling with life and merriment. The sound of merriment and happiness floated to Andriel on the cool night breeze. However halting, impaired, almost uncommunicative the poem, I still have the perverse sense that the station to which it is tuned, however low, is merriment. When the crops were safely in storage for the winter after a season of hard work, there was cause for communal celebration performed in a spirit of thankfulness and merriment. Once again happy, healthy and whole, the Swedish thrashers with a meaningful message and a kooky name are ready to embark on a journey of music and merriment. Show More Sentences Though small in number, the North Indian community members in Kochi did celebrate Holi on Friday with a splurge of colours, breathing an atmosphere of social merriment. The band reduces electric boogie and original punk-funk to their sinewy essences, with enough sleaze, sass and drunken merriment to power a pimpmobile. He didn't talk so much as honk, and the merriment he evinced at his own jests produced a laugh that sounded like snot being hoovered up with a surgical tube. Several of the men let out whoops of merriment and two stood and began to polka around the fire with each other, causing laughs and jeers from the others. From the kick off on Friday evening it was party time all weekend with fun and merriment and top class entertainment provided in every nook and cranny in the village. Nothing is wrong with individuals finding creativity, imagination, merriment, exuberance, playfulness, or goofiness in what they undertake in camp experiences. He clearly didn't understand the demographics of our house at all, and I think he mistook our new-to-Berkeley enthusiasm as antidisestablishmentarian merriment. Even in the midst of all the merriment, however, were reminders of the ongoing tensions within conservatism. The marriage to Kelly was a source of happiness and merriment. While the mass populous is being pumped with merriment to the point of nausea a single Misfit can be seen in the distance. After one such night of merriment, I woke up at a station completely unfamiliar to me. Imitating their elders on such occasions, they stuffed themselves with a lot of food and drink, and roared with merriment to the bemusement of all the diners around. I sat there, with tears in my eyes, and hiccoughed for breath, quite beside myself with feverish merriment. It should seem he had that day been in a humour for jocularity and merriment, and upon such occasions I never knew a man laugh more heartily. Then an impromptu square dance, the men devising original figures. What merriment! Jimmy took his part with a will. At a banquet, Macbeth invites his lords and Lady Macbeth to a night of drinking and merriment. You simply lift your heart to a paean with a tilt in the hat-brim, and leap from misery into merriment with a Rosalind feather in your Juliet cap. Now the first time that his small weazel-eyes happened to light on Billy Budd, a certain grim internal merriment set all his ancient wrinkles into antic play. Black shirts sold out across textile shops in Kerala as students, including girls, dressed up in black shirts and mundu for Onam merriment on campuses. Examples from Classical Literature The merriment of the season is materially heightened by the making of the mochi. There was no merriment, but there was a kindly look on every face that was beautiful to see. Valentine, in fact, was seized by that desperate merriment which is known as gallows humor. A gleesome roar of merriment interrupted Bart as he called out the second lot. One of his songs, he had said, that about the Gorgonzola Cheese, never failed to create merriment. Alcyone from the first disliked the idea of the ball, and all the rampant merriment connected with it. Ecstasy in prayer and fantastic merriment on days of religious rejoicing, raised a Hasid to a hero among his kind. There were nights of wholesome, heart-warming merriment and the singing of old songs. She had a gaiety and insouciance, and a natural childlike merriment that all her terrible disasters could not overcloud. It caused a great deal of merriment, and was a standing joke for some time. Why, I was almost tempted to join in the general merriment his inapposite reply elicited. But there was no trace of merriment or perplexity in the way he looked at Mr Verloc. While the room was yet echoing with the merriment, a servant announced a courier from Memel. It was a chicheria, and the chicha there served was evidently the cause of the good nature and general merriment that prevailed. An Associate who does not go into ecstasies of merriment over every joke or obiter dictum from the Bench. Then he would take the floor and soon would have them convulsing with merriment. It fell like a blight on all the merriment about donkeys, pyramids, bazaars, or what not. His attempt to laugh, indeed, sounded a little hollow, but that is the habit of self-directed merriment. And the Countess can look a profound merriment with perfect sedateness when there appears to be an equivoque in company. From beneath their broad-brimmed hats of palm-leaf, gleamed eyes which, even in good-nature and merriment, had a kind of animal ferocity. Show More Sentences The Vice-Warden and his wife shook with well-acted merriment. This admeasurement raised my merriment to its acme, and I laughed aloud. So, with laughter and shouts and endless badinage and merriment, the guests take their places. Heathcliff followed, his accidental merriment expiring quickly in his habitual moroseness. Bellamy looked down at her, as if asking a share in her merriment. Her brown eyes wavered for a moment, and then brimmed with merriment. But, without any apparent reason, it was withdrawn, and its owner indulged in another long, though still silent, fit of merriment. The detective indulged himself in a cackle of sneering merriment. Yet in an instant she had changed again to her old expression of merriment leavened with mischief. Having with difficulty restrained an explosion of merriment, lest it should offend her majesty, Laurie tapped and was graciously received. Thus we made further merriment as we rode down into the Great Basin. I heeded not the gay smiles and free merriment of those around me. In the burst of merriment, his pent feelings found their vent. The father and mother made their appearance, and the merriment began. Amid the uproarious merriment provoked by their speeches I sat in silence. With others he took part in the uproarious merriment of the occasion. There was color, light, and life in the boy's face now, vivacity in his manner, and genuine merriment in his laugh. Their sighs make thee laugh, and their pangs are thy merriment! The sound of our merriment mixing so rhythmically was music to my ears. The town was full of noise and merriment, but we took secluded ways. Show More Sentences Her eyes were dancing with that merriment she could never long restrain. Then Robin laughed outright, and sat him down upon the gnarled root of a tree, to finish his merriment. It was impossible for anyone to be shy or sober, for such gales of merriment arose they blew the starch out of the stiffest, and made the saddest jolly. As he glanced at me, his face dimpled with a seizure of irrelevant merriment, and he shot up the windmill tower with a lightness that struck me as disdainful. So amid great merriment and right good fellowship the outlaws shook Middle by the hand, and he took oath of fealty, and thought no more of the Sheriff's daughter. Debienne and Poligny, who, seeing us pass straight from the gloomiest state of mind to one of the most insolent merriment, acted as though they thought that we had gone mad. As I went with them the memory of my confident anticipations of a profoundly grave and intellectual posterity came, with irresistible merriment, to my mind. Another minute brought them up with the rear-guard, where every man marched with his beard on his shoulder and a face which was agrin with merriment. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of merriment? Words that rhyme with merriment What is the plural of merriment? What is the adverb for merriment? What is the adjective for merriment? What is the noun for merriment? Translations for merriment Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Merriman Merrimack merrimac Merrily merrily Merrill merriness Merritt merry Merry merry-andrew merry Christmas 9-letter Words Starting With m me mer merr merri merrim merrime merrimen