Example Sentences

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The audience is jollied along by Veneziale with polite puckishness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2022

These weren’t people jollied by the guy with the funny hair.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021

It was a perfect misunderstanding, between two strangers who’d been jollied into conjunction by a go-between—me, that is.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2019

“The Long Christmas Dinner,” a comedy dappled with dolor, mostly comes off well until the director substitutes a sentimental ending for Wilder’s sad one, but “Pullman Car Hiawatha” is excruciatingly jollied up.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2015

Then Big Ma, who’d been jollied out of her fussing, was once again sharp and angry.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia