MERRY in a Sentence

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162 example sentences for MERRY, such as:
1. It is good to be merry at meal.
2. A merry heart goes all the way.
3. There is a merry smile on her face.
4. All are not merry that dance lightly.
5. The joy of the heart makes the face merry.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MERRY
merry
 a.  quick and energetic
 a.  full of or showing high-spirited merriment
Classic Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
1  First came Marya Dmitrievna and the count, both with merry countenances.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX
2  She is quite a child: such a dear, merry child.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
3  When he reached his sister's room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying one word after another, came through the open door.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
4  The lieutenant was looking about in his usual way and suddenly seemed to grow very merry.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
5  Then came some merry soldiers who had evidently been drinking.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
6  From politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry jests and gossip.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI
7  Prince Vasili was not having any supper: he went round the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of the guests.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II
8  The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne's, and Katie's, who was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping of birds.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
9  Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these merry reminiscences.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
10  The door was opened a crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, and merry faces.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I
11  From the dancing room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade Natasha to sing.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XV
12  He heard merry girlish cries behind some trees on the right and saw a group of girls running to cross the path of his caleche.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II
13  For one of the merry cotillions before supper Prince Andrew was again her partner.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVII
14  Petya was a big handsome boy of thirteen, merry, witty, and mischievous, with a voice that was already breaking.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I
15  It really was Melyukovka, and maids and footmen with merry faces came running, out to the porch carrying candles.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  A merry heart goes all the way.
2  All are not merry that dance lightly.
3  Be always as merry as ever you can, for no-one delights in a sorrowful man.
4  It is good to be merry at meal.
5  Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
6  The joy of the heart makes the face merry.
7  A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance.
8  If this is true, that wine and strong drink have such virtue to expel fear and sorrow, and to exhilarate the mind, let's drink and be merry.
9  I reach up to grab the next chair so that I can toddle on my merry way.
10  The festive Christmas dinner was a merry one, and old and young alike joined in the general jollity.
11  There is a merry smile on her face.