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Example sentences for "jolly good"

  • When they started they began to sing 'For 'e's a jolly good feller', making the night resound with their noisy voices.

  • And then the air was filled with: For he’s a jolly good fellow.

  • At last the meeting broke up, with cheers, and God save the Queen, and He’s a jolly good fellow.

  • The audience opened its mighty mouth and roared, then burst again into, For he’s a jolly good fellow!

  • The sentiment was received with great applause, and the toast was drunk with all the honours, and followed by the customary but inappropriate chorus, "For he's a jolly good fellow!

  • May the Gown give the Town a jolly good hiding!

  • It would be a jolly good job if we did have a war.

  • Well, it would be a jolly good job if we did have a war," rejoined Ancram airily.

  • His health, too, was drunk, and they sang For he's a Jolly Good Fellow.

  • But he is a jolly good companion; and the Freemasonry of a Public School is amazing.

  • I am going to have a jolly good time, and then take the risk.

  • The manager's manner, too, was normal and it seems to me that either he's a jolly good actor or you two chaps are on a wild goose chase.

  • Jolly good of you," said 'Possum gruffly.

  • Unless he hurries up, he'll get a jolly good wetting," said Dick, and they all began to shout.

  • Well, my passenger started in a yacht, and had a jolly good time, jotting down his descriptions every night.

  • Ye had a jolly good ride, old feller, had'nt ye?

  • One hopes he will not let the nigger off without a jolly good hanging; another will bet his life Felsh takes care of that small item, for then his claim on the state treasury will be doubled.

  • Jolly good of you to have me; I know a new-chum isn't much use.

  • Jolly Good Fellows--and some of the band cheered while they played, with very curious results.

  • A jolly good ship, too, Tommy; one of the big Australian liners--the Nauru.

  • That's jolly good, too, 'cause she has gotter cold.

  • It's jus' that and water and it's jolly good!

  • You're going to live in a jolly good house, I promise you.

  • It's jolly good of you to say these things, Arthur, because they're not in your line, and I know you hate them.

  • A bit of real literature is "Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack.

  • Allow me to express, unasked, the zest and satisfaction with which I read "Jolly Good Times.

  • JOLLY GOOD TIMES; OR, CHILD LIFE ON A FARM 2.

  • I've a jolly good mind to give you a good licking, only I don't believe you'd care tu'pence if I did!

  • I hope he gives Noaks a jolly good 'impot.

  • This is the young beggar who tied that rope to the scrapers; I vote we give him a jolly good licking.

  • You know very well why it was Blake interfered; and he's not a fool, but a jolly good sort.

  • Now that you and Smith are going to play, we ought to have a jolly good season.

  • We shall thus improve our minds, and have a jolly good time as well.

  • He must be jolly good if he was only just out of the Eton team last year.

  • Can't you see that by a miracle we've got a chance of getting a jolly good bit of our own back against those Downing's ticks?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jolly good" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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