FESTIVAL in a Sentence
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99 example sentences for FESTIVAL, such as:
1. Not everyone approves of the festival.
2. This festival descends from a Chinese rite.
3. It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared.
4. A host of musicians will perform at the festival.
5. The performance made her the toast of the festival.
2. This festival descends from a Chinese rite.
3. It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared.
4. A host of musicians will perform at the festival.
5. The performance made her the toast of the festival.
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Meanings and Examples of FESTIVAL
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festival
n. an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)
n. a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1 It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
2 It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
3 A young girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in the wind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
4 On festival days and Sundays four mother precentors intone the offices before a large reading-desk with four places.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
5 There is no festival which comes up to an execution on the Place de Greve.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
6 The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid.
7 So that we may say that Paris's great prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, is its sewer system.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
8 I would mingle with the festival the rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
9 It is impossible that this sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to the infinite.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
10 Anyone who had seen her sleeping might have said she was a young girl dreaming of the crown of flowers she was to wear on her brow at the next festival.
11 As the sun rose slowly above the eastern horizon, the caps of the great mountains lit up one after the other, like lamps at a festival, until they were all ruddy and glowing.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
12 Radiating royalty, complacency, good humour, the wild child was Queen of the festival.
13 Exiled from its festival, the music turned ironical.
14 The Lady Rowena," he said, "possesses not the language in which to reply to your courtesy, or to sustain her part in your festival.
15 Prince John held his high festival in the Castle of Ashby.
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1 We've received permission to go ahead with the music festival in spite of opposition from local residents.
2 The annual arts festival is a monument to her vision and hard work.
3 I should think the Welsh are the only people in the world whose only national festival is devoted to music and poetry.
4 This festival descends from a Chinese rite.
5 They organized the festival jointly with the French cultural service.
6 The aim of the culture festival is to promote friendship between the two countries.
7 The pop festival passed off peacefully, despite the fears of local residents.
8 The music festival is a new enterprise which we hope will become an annual event.
9 The film festival is acknowledged as an event of international importance.
10 Not everyone approves of the festival.
11 The accusation of elitism seems unfair as the festival presents a wide range of music, with something to please everyone.
12 A new Czechoslovak film has had its premiere at the Karlovy Vary film festival.
13 A host of musicians will perform at the festival.
14 The performance made her the toast of the festival.
15 Harvest festival was the occasion for the collective expression of a community's religious values.