Sentence examples for slightly merry from inspiring English sources
Of course, we had to drink the wine first and it was a bizarre sight to see a bunch of slightly merry trekkers and porters wearing strange silver carnival masks high in the mountains.
'Oh, this is slightly merry, but they probably won't last.' That's how the Brits thought about Hitler then, because he'd only just become chancellor of Germany, and they didn't know whether he was going to last".
Ms. Gray, 65, who has gray-blonde hair and exceptionally graceful hands with long, slender fingers, wears rimless glasses that fail to conceal the merry, slightly quizzical look in her eyes.
Some people say that teaching is a noble profession; Eldridge suggests that it is a carnal merry-go-round only slightly inconvenienced by pupils, marking and inspections.
All afternoon, Mr. Sanford had been serving as a delighted, if slightly bewildered, tour guide, gamely rallying his merry crowd of supporters and turning to his aides to ask for guidance and further instructions.
He turned slightly to avoid them, and he went on his merry way.
He paused slightly before responding, correctly, "What are 'eat, drink, and be merry?"' Other answers Mr. Cordray nailed: "Though the most beautiful Roman goddess, she married the ugliest god, Vulcan".
(Run-of-the-mill satirists deliver such "insights" with an air of merry cynicism, presuming a readership that still harbors an image of the literary life only slightly less idealized than Raphael's depiction of the School of Athens).
The managerial merry-go-round is building up speed, and who's that hanging off a slightly dilapidated pony, urging Tony Pulis to grab an arm up?
