Sentence examples for Winter festivities from inspiring English sources

At the court of King Arthur, the winter festivities are disrupted by the arrival of a spectral green knight.

The olivier salad, a dish rich in mayonnaise, simply can't be avoided if you want to fully experience winter festivities Russian-style.

Philip Oltermann The olivier salad, a dish rich in mayonnaise, simply can't be avoided if you want to fully experience winter festivities Russian-style.

The church invented the holiday four centuries after the birth and death of Jesus Christ largely to steal thunder from Roman winter festivities, which tended toward drunkenness, overconsumption and fertility rites.

My husband, Mark, and I and our two children arrived late -- Carnaval begins, in some Belgian villages, as early as mid-January, six weeks before Mardi Gras -- but in time to catch the wave of late-winter festivity.

In a picturesque village in an unspecified time in the near future, the locals prepare for a traditional end-of-winter festivity for which they build a huge bonfire topped with a winter straw man to chase away the dead season and usher in the spring.

ONLY IN WINTER Moscow Russian Winter Festival.

Some Rangers old-timers who will skate Dec. 31 in the Rangers-Flyers alumni game at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia as part of the Winter Classic festivities were on hand at the Garden on Saturday.

With the days growing shorter (and chillier) and holidays coming just around the corner, November is bound to fill up fast with necessary preparations for winter and the holiday festivities.

As the festivity of the Winter Olympics dies away, what is the next extravaganza that Canada has to offer?

LOWER MANHATTAN Artificial Snow, But a Real Spectacle The "2000 Festival of Light and Sound" series of art and music performances at the World Financial Center will kick off holiday festivities tomorrow with the Winter Garden lighting ceremony.