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How to use merry in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Merry means jolly and full of high spirits; happy. Example: “We had a very merry Christmas.”

Examples of merry by meaning

adjectiveJolly and full of high spirits; happy.

  • We had a very merry Christmas.

adjectiveFestive and full of fun and laughter.

  • Everyone was merry at the party.

adjectiveBrisk.

  • The play moved along at a merry pace.
  • The car moved at a merry clip.

adjectiveCausing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.

  • a merry jest

adjectiveDrunk; tipsy.

  • Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.

More sentences with merry

  • They gave each other a quick hello when they met, and went back on their merry ways.From the entry hello
  • She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles.From the entry prodigal
  • The new junior employee joined our merry after-hours coterie.From the entry coterie
  • The children led us on a merry dance with their stories of strangers and shadows in the night.From the entry merry dance
  • We wish you a merry Christmas.From the entry wish
  • Robots may threaten low-skilled workers’ jobs, and AI may threaten high-skilled workers’ jobs, so I guess we'll all have a merry Christmas then!From the entry low-skilled
  • He maketh merry with us all oft and anon, and 'twill be to his own undoing.2011, Arthur D Bardswell, The Poor Preachers. From the entry doomsome
  • We must eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.2009, Chris R[obert] Armstrong, “John Newton: Proclaiming Grace and Uniting the Church”, in Patron Saints for Postmoderns: 10 from the…. From the entry eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die
  • Mozart often made merry over the Salzburgians; he called them stupid and envious.2006, Friedrich Kerst, Mozart: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words, page 61. From the entry Salzburgian
  • So in spite of Thumper's continuing discomfort we enjoyed a fairly merry Christmas.2002 June 25, Charles W. Dryden, A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 215. From the entry hawk
  • I ninja'd my way into Kung Fu Records to hang out with those merry pranksters the Vandals.2002 August 29, Los Angeles Times, page 48. From the entry ninja
  • In camping it's "the fewer the better," but in "dudeing" it may be "the more the merrier."2001, Janice Sanford Beck, “Tepee Life in the Northern Hills (1924)”, in No Ordinary Woman: The Story of Mary Schäffer Warren, Surrey…. From the entry dude
  • Progress on your merry path of midget twinkification and it'll be "Manics?2001 October 3, St Erroneous, “Dementia Simplex”, in uk.gay-lesbian-bi (Usenet). From the entry twinkification
  • If there is no God, then we should ‘eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die’.2000, Peter Jeffery, “What is man?”, in Which Way to God?, Darlington, Durham; Webster, N.Y.: Evangelical Press, published 2005 (4th…. From the entry eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die
  • Drink up thy zider, drink up thy zider, For tonight we'll merry be.1975 July, “Drink Up Thy Zider” (track 6), in The Finest 'Arvest of The Wurzels, performed by The Wurzels. From the entry half cut
  • Be merry, man, for a minute, for you'll be a long time dead!1968, Sean O'Casey, The Sean O'Casey Reader, page 259. From the entry you're a long time dead
  • The merry ring of heart-free laughter filled the air, and all around were peace and contentment.1938, Alan Villiers, The Rotarian, page 14. From the entry heart-free
  • Merry threw out helpless hands. ‘He’s gone!’ he said. ‘The death-wail.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 214. From the entry death wail
  • They were gravely merry and pressed on us the courtesy of the good folk of Turkestan.1930, Owen Lattimore, “Suget and Karakoram”, in High Tartary, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 344. From the entry Turkestan
  • Merry Christmas! (The grown-ups gasp, but the Children rush to him, screaming for joy, "It's Sandy Claus!1925, Katharine Kester, The Christmas child comes in; a play in two acts, Baker, page 45. From the entry Sandy Claus
  • Their merry faces give some idea of how happy they are in that big home-school.1924 August 9, “Saturday Morning Cooking Lesson Is ‘Pie’ for the Children […]”, in The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, home edition, volume…. From the entry home-school
  • They danced round and round their merry Jockie Faw, And roosed the gypsie laddie.1921, Lowry Charles Wimberly, Minstrelsy, Music, and the Dance in the English and Scottish Popular Ballads. From the entry roose
  • "Well, we'll have a good start at all events," said Merle, with a merry little upglance.1917, Willis George Emerson, A Vendetta of the Hills, page 265. From the entry upglance
  • Come on now, fellows, since Peaches has promised to behave himself, let the merry dance go on.1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine. From the entry merry dance
  • You have yet told me little of it.” “A merry bairnhood, though Otkar's was a heavy hand.”1905, Robert Ames Bennet, For the White Christ. From the entry bairnhood
  • Had not the haughty, eccentric Don John, his handsome, merry joculatrix, attached to his princely household?1903, Frederic Stewart Isham, Under the Rose. From the entry joculatrix
  • Do you remember old Izaak Walton’s account of the milk-maid with her merry songs?1900, S[abine] Baring Gould, “Milk-maids”, in In a Quiet Village, London: Isbister and Company Limited […], page 151. From the entry milk-maid
  • Of course, it’s fun to laugh and poke fun at people like Kim Jong-Un and his merry band of boneheads.2015, Andrew Gillmore, “Kim Jong-Un and the Merry Band of Boneheads”, in The Red Fish Project: A uniquely honest account of living abroad…. From the entry Pyeongyang
  • I just wanted to come by and say merry Christmas and congratulate you on becoming the world's first quadrillionaire.”2014, Ryan Browning, Patricians:: Sinful Seven, →ISBN. From the entry quadrillionaire
  • The younger decided to leave and live the fast life and be carefree—eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.2013, Carvel Collins, Fighting With Purpose: I'm in It to Win It, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die
  • Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”2011, Mack Reynolds, Tomorrow Might Be Different, →ISBN. From the entry eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die
  • It was military bandsmen, their uniform coats unbuttoned, who supplied the merry tune, from a clarinet, a tuba, a fife.2005, E. L. Doctorow, The March, New York: Random House, Part One, p. 28. From the entry bandsman
  • Wishing you a merry Christmas, and a sausagey new year.1998 December 16, Rich Asplin, “its getting a bit empty....”, in uk.local.north-staffs (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Mar 2026. From the entry sausagey
  • It is not eat, drink and be merry.1995, V. R. Taneja, Educational Thought And Practice, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry eat, drink and be merry

Meaning of merry

  1. adjective Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.
  2. adjective Festive and full of fun and laughter.
  3. adjective Brisk.

Full definition of merry

Questions about merry in a sentence

How do you use merry in a sentence?
Merry is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “We had a very merry Christmas.”
What is a short sentence with merry?
“a merry jest”
What does merry mean?
Merry means jolly and full of high spirits; happy.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: merry (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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