Sentence examples for could be jolly from inspiring English sources

Mr. Robinson knew that clowns could be jolly or sinister, which helped define the villain's look.

Cameron's former speechwriter, Clare Foges, recently wrote that working for Crosby, as she did in 2015, could be jolly: "He is prone to tooting on an antique trumpet to rally the troops and blasting out Queen's One Vision over and over again," she wrote in the Times.

Perhaps his own mother summed him up when "explaining to those who regarded him as cold and overserious that he could be jolly, that he took things to heart, that he felt deeply and sincerely and was more sensitive than he cared to show".

Christmas could be less jolly for German children this year with many regions suffering a shortage of Santas.

"I got offered the job and thought, 'Children's film villain – that could be quite jolly.' I tried to give it a bit of a Dennis Price sneery thing".

In the hands of another artist this could be a jolly scene, of a couple on a beach house bench, gazing out to sea.

It could be a jolly night for the local rotary were it not for the full camera crew, studio lighting bright enough to blind a reindeer and an equally dazzling line-up of celebrities.

If only every board meeting could be this jolly".

It could have been jolly, for instance, if Bellos had done a bit of shoe-leather reporting and, say, infiltrated La Société des Amis de Victor Hugo, France's leading association for all things pertaining to the author of "Les Misérables". What are the burning points of contention among Misérablists?

They must be jolly high.

"Be jolly!