Sentence examples for merry by from inspiring English sources

The slaphappy topers in "Merry Company" (circa 1630-31) are too merry by half, to my mind.

Adventures in Eating, Drinking, and Making Merry By Julia Reed St. Martin's, $25.99.

If he were the guest editor for Charlie Hebdo, as fictitiously suggested, the Prophet would have unequivocally decried the bombing but also would have called on citizens of all faiths to make merry by working together, not by making a jest of one another's saints.

It's great fun made considerably merrier by Rupert Degas's deliberately OTT range of voices, from Steptoe to Gielgud to Gollum.

These are anxious silences in a production - made merrier by the gurgling reproofs of Googie Withers - in which not everyone has a secure grip on their lines.

Luciano (Aniello Arena) is a fishmonger by trade and a merry soul by instinct.

Wearing a turquoise coat dress and matching hat, she was wished a merry Christmas by about 1,000 wellwishers.

A burst of sudden glory – Thomas Hobbes's quirky definition of laughter – could double as a subtitle for this merry painting by the English artist Jeremy Moon.

And Chita Rivera throws her vanity about the stage as Liliane La Fleur, the producer/battle-axe who is led on a merry dance by her enfant terrible.

It was then that the game entered sitcom land, Yorkshire led a merry dance by the Indian quick Sri Sreesanth, who bowled vigorously to have four for 36 by the close.

Tobin Eason, a 17-year-old member of the company from Mandeville, La., made his choreographic debut with "Symphony No. 23," a little charmer of a ballet to a recording of a merry score by Mozart.