merrily
Example Sentences
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“Did you at least prepare him for the vortex of evil that is the Seton brand—I mean, family?” she snarks merrily.
“Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.”
From Literature
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Alexander, the beloved “Seinfeld” star who made his Broadway debut in Sondheim and George Furth’s “Merrily We Roll Along” in 1981, knows a thing or two about American musicals, having served for a time as the artistic director of L.A.’s bygone Reprise Theatre Company.
From Los Angeles Times
They are no longer in question: The past two decades have seen practically all of his musicals revived to acclaim, most recently “Merrily We Roll Along,” a perceptive examination of the cost of ambition that famously flopped when it was first produced in 1981 but was a sellout recently on Broadway.
"Usually the vortex spins merrily along and has little effect on our weather, but occasionally it moves or stretches southward over North America, bringing with it a jolt of cold," Jennifer Francis, a senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, told AFP.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.