Sentence examples for a manger scene from inspiring English sources

Once I've gathered it's a manger scene, I know all I need to know.

(Ages 4 to 8) A wintry setting that could evoke a New England Christmas or a manger scene becomes a modern interpretation of an old, well-traveled folktale.

Atheist groups last year began taking advantage of the Capitol's free speech zone after a Christian group installed a manger scene showing the birth of Jesus.

Last year, 20,000 people visited the sprawling installation, which features Santa's Pink Robot Store and a manger scene with baby Jesus wearing a Sumo-style topknot and wise men bearing gifts of toy microwaves.

When people talk about a manger scene, or Jesus being born in a manger, or a star shining down on the manger, it's not clear they always understand that "manger" refers not to a barn but to Jesus' makeshift crib.

Ivins once told me that, after the A.C.L.U. filed suit against a manger scene in the capitol, she called Governor Richards and asked, "Annie, is it really necessary to remove the crèche?" "I'm afraid so," Richards replied.

This year, they have transformed their house into a wild, psychedelic eruption of seasonal sensation -- an electrical exclamation of elves, Santas, reindeer and, of course, a prominent manger scene, although one in which, on the night I saw it, Mary's light had just burned out.

One of the best-selling sets is a Christmas manger scene.

Each year during the Advent season, the church would set up a giant manger scene out near the entryway to the property so that passers by would be reminded of what Christmas is all about.

There, between two never-before-seen plaster angels, sat a brightly colored inflatable manger scene!

If I said the things he does" — he, of course, being the Larry David who goes around eating his in-laws' manger scene, inviting a sex offender to a Seder, and teaching kids how to draw swastikas — "I'd be beaten up.