(1) I did a quick survey of friends' and neighbours' families and found 11 young people and three men in their 40s and 50s on this merry-go-round.
(2) The grotesque merry-go-round of more people selling fewer overpriced homes is in full swing.
(3) On hearing the Rolf Harris verdicts, I felt vengeful, like many, I expect – condemning this man who led the public a merry dance and enjoyed enormous success while perpetrating abuse.
(4) Steph Merry, head of marine renewables at the Renewable Energy Association, said last year that only the giant barrage made sense.
(5) Interesting that there should be so many applications who are, according to the Merry Hill store, of an “incredibly high” standard, and so soon after graduation.
(6) Dinner guests were serenaded by opera singer Renee Fleming, a triple-Grammy award-winning soprano, who sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro.
(7) Banks stopped lending almost overnight, and the Wilsons' property merry-go-round suddently started looking increasingly shaky.
(8) Merry Go 'Round was praised by Katy Perry and a song that Musgraves co-wrote, Undermine , was played on the TV series Nashville , shown in the UK on Channel 4.
(9) With the private sector now calling the tune on affordable housing, while hiding the score in a locked room, it’s not hard to see why the chief executive of the National Housing Federation, David Orr, recently told his members that developers are “leading local authorities on a merry dance”.
(10) Amid all the schadenfreude, it’s worth remembering that two years ago, Arsène Wenger and his merry men were similarly derided after suffering a comical opening day home defeat at the hands of Aston Villa, before going on to win eight and draw one of their next nine league matches.
(11) Allowing for the odd lapse – such as his terrible musical version of The Merry Wives of Windsor in 2006 – he has done much fine work.
(12) Interviewed about the cuts and the economic outlook on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 on Sunday , Osborne looked grim and statesmanlike in repose – he has grown fleshier in office – but every time he began to speak his dimpled mouth formed a half-smile and his quick eyes were almost merry.
(13) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
(14) We decided we wanted to offer it to a young asylum seeker.” At the Paris parish of Saint Merry to which and her husband, Philippe, belong, Pépin had heard of the Welcome to France project run by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS).
(15) "And going on that IVF merry-go-round with all the drugs and the stress, given the limited return ..." We also need to confront our illusions about having a genetic child if we are going to put so much faith in medical solutions, he adds.
(16) The last time he quit, two years ago as general election coordinator, he told Miliband: “After nearly 30 years of this, I feel like I’ve seen the merry-go-round turn too many times.” Unite had hijacked the selection process for the candidate for West Falkirk in favour of Watson’s office manager, Karie Murphy.
(17) At 14 she was high jumping 1.80m, she'd broken Katharine Merry's schools record, there was no hiding after that.
(18) Outside, a more than faintly surreal urban beach scene in a June downpour: battered garden chairs and tables, dripping merry-go-round horse, Cinderella's pumpkin.
(19) Given the attackers have only released a slice of the 100 terabytes of information they claim to have, Sony and its workers are set for a not-so-merry Christmas.
(20) Smoke, drink and make merry On the other hand, the British war veteran Henry Allingham had wildly differing advice (though he agrees on the smoking, at least), putting his longevity down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women. "
Rollicking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rollic
Example Sentences:
(1) Managers get furious rollickings should they not 'get out the cheque book' during the transfer window, more so if they 'only' buy an English player.
(2) Republican debate: Las Vegas fight night was rollicking from start to finish Read more Paul was not the only candidate to be demoted to the undercard debate.
(3) A rollicking maritime adventure movie about the mysterious Captain Nemo and his submarine the Nautilus, the original 20,000 Leagues featured Douglas alongside James Mason as Nemo.
(4) 62 min: Belhadj rollicks down the left again and delivers a fine cross, which Bocanegra clears at a stretch.
(5) Following that came the superior Tommy Heavenly6, for which she adopted a goth-lite style and made rollicking 90s-style alt-rock.
(6) The low rectangular houses being built at Old Sarum are based on hut sites excavated by Prof Mike Parker Pearson a few miles from Stonehenge, at Durrington Walls, which he believes were occupied by the monument builders and also the scene of great mid-winter and mid-summer feasts that lasted for rollicking days and nights.
(7) As for Serena’s great rival, Sharapova, she was seen off by Kerber in a rollicking fourth-round match on a sun-dappled, cabriolet Centre Court: 7-6, 4-6, 6-4.
(8) Relations between the two, always fractious, probably weren't helped by the publication last year of Richards's rollicking autobiography, Life , in which he claimed – among other things – that Jagger was "unbearable" and in possession of "a tiny todger… he's got an enormous pair of balls – but it doesn't quite fill the gap".
(9) The morning is so pallid that the only colour seems to come from his collection of rollicking abstract paintings by Gillian Ayres .
(10) A rollicking playboy type himself, Buss was instrumental in turning the Lakers into Los Angeles's team, complete with an aura of glitz and glamor.
(11) Pacquiao reclaimed the welterweight title he surrendered amid controversy to Bradley two years ago, rectifying one of the most mystifying decisions in boxing history with a clinical points victory before 15,601 rollicking fans.
(12) 8.36pm BST Half-time: It's been rollicking fare so far and that Commons goal was the perfect tee-up for an explosive second period.
(13) But you have seen nothing like it before.” Eubank Sr is in rollicking form and it feels like the old days as he regales me with tales of darkness and destruction – in the tortuously modulated manner of a fighter once famous for wearing jodhpurs and a monocle.
(14) Germany 's service sector is growing steadily, with a PMI of 54.7 (down from January's rollicking 55.7, though).
(15) In 1970 they reached No 12 with the rollicking single Down the Dustpipe, but the ensuing albums Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon (1970) and Dog of Two Head (1971), their first without Lynes, were unsuccessful.
(16) In one case his features would be set in a brooding scowl of powerful, almost somnolent, determination; at another moment he resembled a rollicking cherubic schoolboy.
(17) Trump counters misogyny allegations by saying Fiorina has a 'beautiful face' Read more With the mood swinging from a rollicking family argument to uncomfortably personal confrontation to shared disdain for liberals, the debate showcased a race with an unusual number of candidates from unusually diverse backgrounds making creative plays for the Republican base.
(18) Over a rollicking accordion line, it narrates how Atillano is captured by the Mexican army, and tortured until he agrees to fly them to the cartel's secret landing strip.
(19) Ben Cort's witty and vibrant illustrations are the perfect match for Claire Freedman's rollicking text.
(20) I have a feeling up in the actual venue is quite rollicking but we've just been told to "keep the volume at a sensible limit".