Sentence examples for we were jolly from inspiring English sources

This was our war, and we were jolly well going to have it.

Even so, Andrée wrote, it "did not lessen our festal mood, but we were jolly and friendly as usual".

They appear to be saying: 'We are jolly nice.

Subtext: some of us remember how things are supposed to be around here and we're jolly well not going to give up without a fight.

This was the so-called "Copenhagen Accord" – a three-page, 12-clause statement of intent, legally binding on no one, saying in effect that climate change is a Jolly Bad Thing and promising that We're Jolly Well Going To Work Together To Stop It.

And when the solution to the clue "Tongue" turned out to be "Mouth organ" (in a round about instruments), I made the particular oh-how-clever noise – with the annoying rise and fall in it – that we experienced crossword solvers make whenever we are jolly impressed.

We're not picky… but we are jolly.

"We're going to continue needing submarines as far into the future as I can see, and we're jolly lucky to have the professional and capable set-up that we have got there at Barrow," Sir Nick said.

If the future is Lego, we're jolly well pleased.

Milne said his enquiries were "jolly sensitive".

Most of the guys were jolly.