Sentence examples for birthdays from inspiring English sources
The word "birthdays" is correct in written English
It is used to refer to the anniversary of the day on which a person was born. Example: "We are planning a surprise party for her birthday next week."
And four weeks after returning from Washington DC, they were in a restaurant, celebrating their birthdays – "We're a week apart" – when they became aware that their phones were vibrating repeatedly.
And vice versa: which of us can be sure, after all, that if we were empowered to create, say, admiralties we would not give them to our middle-aged children for their birthdays?
There are now 11 grandchildren's birthdays to celebrate, so I take her point.
Later birthdays and Christmases yielded Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, and Dickens is an author whom I have read and reread annually, usually over the Christmas holidays or when ill in bed, although I have never dared to read his unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Facebook Gifts is a new service in America which mines what the company knows about its users, their tastes and their friendships to encourage them to buy and send each other gifts at appropriate times, such as birthdays.
The kingdom's most senior religious authority, the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, recently scolded a fellow scholar for suggesting that celebrating birthdays was a harmless thing to do, declaring instead that such festivities are sinfully unIslamic.
Some of these are obvious, because they are burning so fast that they will never make their three billionth birthdays, which is the minimum amount of time that Dr Turnbull reckons is needed to go from uninhabited rock to technological civilisation.
It is an illicit, tasty and expensive favourite at weddings, birthdays and other family events, calculated to impress the neighbours or the in-laws.
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