jolly

How To Use jolly In A Sentence

• Close beside me stood my excellent friend Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been frequently described before, and by far better pens. The Bible in Spain
• We are determined to make the 2008 festive season as jolly as any in the past decade or so of unrivalled prosperity. The Sun
• It's still very much inanimate objects and a television screen and jolly old books and things like that.
• Enjoy this jolly, spritzy, grapey, flowering currant and passion fruit-scented rosé well chilled. Times, Sunday Times
• Fewer and fewer people living in this country feel any cultural connection with jolly swagmen, billabongs and coolibah trees.
• He has a jolly, ready laugh and mannerisms like an absentminded professor.
• The Jolly Bottle, the Jolly Bottle, "cried Habershaw, pronouncing this word according to ancient usage, with the accent on the last syllable, as if spelt" bottel; "" give us the Jolly Bottle, we all know the chorus of that song. Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.
• Redwing ordered them to lower the anchor, and they got into the jolly boats and went ashore.
• Jolly's bunk was at the back of the radio room, and he would have had to pass Kinnaird and Grant to get out, not forgetting that he would also have to stop to pick up the Nife cells. Ice Station Zebra
• I mean, maybe they'd rather jolly a single party, with all home comforts as wives or mistresses, than be thumped by four different randies every night. Isabelle