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How to use merrily in a sentence

20 example sentences · adverb

Merrily means in a cheerful or merry way. Example: “The children sang merrily as they walked home.”

Examples of merrily by meaning

adverbIn a cheerful or merry way.

  • go merrily along
  • The children sang merrily as they walked home.
  • She chatted merrily despite the rain.

More sentences with merrily

  • Apneics, Others, and Narcos all gossip merrily on the walk back to our cabins.2007, Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry narco
  • The beatific face broke into a grin and the man's eyes twinkled merrily, like a woodelf's eyes.2001, Ralph Hunter, Winter's Stormy Rage, →ISBN. From the entry woodelf
  • Eggie merrily gets married, and all live happily till presumably Sinus dies, when all live happilier.1958 April 1, Reddem Quick [pseudonym], “Book Revue”, in The Pilot, volume 32, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Fort Hamilton High School, page…. From the entry happilier
  • And with her head swirling with images of ancient druid rituals, she merrily set up her laptop on the kitchen table.2021 April 19, Daren Kay, The Brightonians, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry soccasin
  • Packed merrily into my friends’ beater, an old Ford Pinto, we headed into Jennings, a mostly Black North St.2020 July 14, Ron Stodghill, “Black Behind the Wheel”, in New York Times. From the entry beater
  • Perro prances merrily down the path, balancing his huevo jauntily on his nose, to the amazement of some watching chickens.2002, School Library Journal: SLJ - Volume 48, Issues 5-8, page 155. From the entry huevo
  • VU (volume unit) meters are wonderful to look at as their pointers swing merrily back and forth across their brightly-lit faces.1978, Craig Anderton, Home recording for musicians. From the entry VU meter
  • The girl threw back her head and laughed merrily.1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond. From the entry back out
  • Pursuing its preposterous, overplotted premise, Time merrily confuses myth with fact--Romeo and Juliet and Arthur never lived, or they did so under other names.1988 July 1, Lawrence Bommer, “Channel This, or Die, Yuppie Scum!; Time in a Battle”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry overplotted
  • Outside a blue jay’s ragged discussion with himself answered what sounded like a distant playgroundful of children merrily slaughtering each other at recess.1973, Virginia Quarterly Review, page 429. From the entry playgroundful
  • He laughed merrily, showing his compact row of teeth, and drawing his cap over the bald patch, went out and got into the calèche.1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 179). From the entry calèche
  • The water was soon slushing merrily over the deck, while the smoke pouring from the cabin stove carried a promise of good things to come.1902, Jack London, The Cruise of the Dazzler. From the entry slush
  • It was nearly two in the morning when Hally and her family finally said their goodnights, or goodmornings as dad merrily put it and made their way home.2012, Stephanie M. Turner, “New Year”, in Fifteen Going On Grown Up, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry goodmorning
  • If you believe the system can merrily proceed despite an assertion failure, code the exception handler to log the error, leaving debugging breadcrumbs behind, and return.2004, Jack Ganssle, The Firmware Handbook, page 276. From the entry breadcrumb
  • Sparrows merrily chirped in the trees that shaded a playgroundful of tots and mothers and she crossed to the hospital not to have her baby but lose it.1980, Eliot Wagner, My America!, New York, N.Y.: Kenan Press, →ISBN, page 392. From the entry playgroundful
  • Likewise and moreover, Howaji, is it a time to betalk ourselves merrily of dates, I request you, when the pasha's visit is to be made preparations for?1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib. From the entry betalk
  • The battle between the Hebrewists and the Yiddishists goes merrily on, and ink flows as freely in the columns as blood but lately did on the battle fields of Europe.1918, The Dial - Volume 65, page 620. From the entry hebrewist

Meaning of merrily

  1. adverb In a cheerful or merry way.

Full definition of merrily

Questions about merrily in a sentence

How do you use merrily in a sentence?
Merrily is used as an adverb. For example: “The children sang merrily as they walked home.”
What is a short sentence with merrily?
“go merrily along”
What does merrily mean?
Merrily means in a cheerful or merry way.

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