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Example sentences for "merrily"

Lexicographically close words:
meroblastic; meros; merried; merrier; merriest; merriment; merriments; merriness; merry; merrye
  1. The sun shone here; it would shine merrily in the country.

  2. Ora laughed merrily and said that she hoped he would.

  3. He was in great spirits and began to talk merrily and volubly, making fun of his companion, of love, of engaged folk, and so on.

  4. She waved her hand merrily as she was driven away.

  5. Then she began to laugh merrily at the scene which had passed between them.

  6. Both Wythen and Anselo laughed merrily as I told a tale I once heard of a Gypsy who had been “away” for a space.

  7. Yet the next day, every shred of this dark feeling would be flung to the winds, as under a scented may-bush the girl was romancing merrily or instructing me in the peculiar whistle giving warning of the approach of Velveteens or a policeman.

  8. Into it were piling merrily some eight or nine doughboys, the cabman fairly dancing on his seat as he uttered frantic but perfectly unheeded expostulations.

  9. I have spoken steal softly from a thicket, and with one hideous bound make her way into the very midst of those birds and seize upon that bird Joyous, that was wont to sing so merrily from the tree hard by the arbor.

  10. The whole long day they led the poor child in all her finery, with the green plume nodding on her head, from house to house dancing merrily to cheer people after the dulness and privations of the fast.

  11. Then feasting and revelry began and were kept up merrily without respect of persons.

  12. Now merrily to Horse: The Theeues are scattred, and possest with fear so strongly, that they dare not meet each other: each takes his fellow for an Officer.

  13. Come, let vs take a muster speedily: Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily Dow.

  14. So sitting down in one of the caves they feasted merrily and awaited the return of the inhabitants.

  15. That king was Charles the Eighth, then a boy of twenty, who was making his days fly merrily with tilts and hawking parties, and his nights with dances and the whispers of fair dames.

  16. The coals snapped in the grate and the firelight danced merrily on the skylark's cage and the copper kettle.

  17. Then he took the paper between his sharp little teeth and merrily tore it to shreds.

  18. Below he saw a swarm of giants striding white horses; saw the little messenger he had sent to Nappa fighting as merrily as any Metcalf of them all; saw the Roundheads retreating stubbornly.

  19. Lambert's cannon will thunder just as merrily when the truce is ended.

  20. Mrs. Goring and straight into the sparkling eyes of a very human looking, merrily smiling girl in plain Mission print.

  21. He chuckled again, and turned merrily on the Duke.

  22. The scent of flowers offered itself the incense to his ritual; the fountains leapt more merrily for his coming.

  23. A flock of gulls were circling in the morning air, screaming with delight as they picked the crumbs that floated astern; and all went merrily oh!

  24. Years have fled since then, but the old mill-wheel goes merrily round as in the days of yore; and Nannie and John are still alive, and likely to live for many a long year.

  25. The gardener merrily nailed away, while the baker was working his hands for nothing.

  26. He warbled a tune as merrily as any bird.

  27. The shaggy man was left to walk behind; but he didn't seem to mind that a bit, and whistled merrily or looked curiously upon the pretty scenes they passed.

  28. And "No, indeed," came merrily from Polly.

  29. He pranced over to Polly and Jasper just as merrily as if nothing dreadful had happened.

  30. Or night--for it was the middle of the night, though bright as day--and Jess galloped and the Brownie sat on her back as merrily as if they had gone hunting together all their days.

  31. I wish I were a little bird; All summer long I'd fly so merrily Sing such a song!

  32. Down at the shallows Professor Burgess and Dennie had found the waters too deep to reach the Kickapoo Corral, so they strolled along the bluff watching the river rippling merrily in the fall of the afternoon sunshine.

  33. And again the camp fires were glowing where a Sorority "spread" was merrily in the making.

  34. And Prather paused to laugh merrily at his own humour.

  35. This sudden and unexpected demonstration aroused Captain Maynadier, and right merrily answered the mortars till noon.

  36. He chuckled merrily over it, and said, "I's in de service of de Union now.

  37. Electress, draws his cloak about, and walks merrily through the storm.

  38. Till the opera hour, the time passed merrily with the Austrian group; and forgetful of his bosom's care, by their animated host.

  39. Sometimes it murmured and fretted in a chasm far below us; again, it spread itself out in our very path, or danced merrily at our side, until it seemed to plunge into some distant abyss with the roar of a cataract.

  40. Well, signor, the victory was ours, and the ship mine; I ruled merrily enough for six months.

  41. The wine animated Glyndon, whose unequal spirits were at times high and brilliant as those of a school-boy released; and the laughter of the Northern tourists sounded oft and merrily along the melancholy domains of buried cities.

  42. As we stood on the bridge, I inquired of Jones the name of the brook which was running merrily beneath it.

  43. The sight filled my veins with fresh life, and I descended this side of the hill as merrily as I had come up the other side despondingly.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merrily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.