Sentence examples for it would be jolly from inspiring English sources

If one term had to cover all eventualities in Les Vèpres siciliennes it would be "jolly rousing".

But I was young and invincible, so I ordered the Buffalo sausage stuffer, thinking it would be jolly to make my own.

Karol Sikora is a cancer specialist It's panto time and it would be jolly to cast Boris Johnson as a straw-haired Whittington entering London, his baggage on his back.

It would be jolly to think that this was a kind of revolutionary reaction to the traditional autumn onslaught of Strictly, The X Factor, I'm a Celebrity … and the bladdy Apprentice – an advent reality-TV endurance test that leaves viewers not so much counting down the days until Father Christmas arrives, as until Simon Cowell disappears – but the reality is more complicated.

That's what the military are there for, and as I said, it would be jolly nice if they could get a bonus, but they won't".

What many party bosses had hoped would be jolly coronations have turned into real political fist-fights.But do Mr McCain or Mr Bradley have any chance of turning possible early upsets into sustained campaigns?

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg".

Instead let's all have a laugh about how jolly it would be if we all skipped instead of walked.

I didn't know what to expect and I wasn't sure how jolly it would be but it was thoroughly charming.

I jollied them into a semblance of good humour - told them I was sure it would be thirsty work.

It helps us to be jolly".