Sentence examples for elaborate feasting from inspiring English sources

The all-important Festival of the Yam marks the beginning of the Nigerian Yoruban calendar year with fasting, sacrificial offerings, and finally, great elaborate feasting.

The New Year is determined by the yam harvest for Trobrian Islanders of Melanesia, as well as the Hausa of Ghana who call it the "Feast of the Full Stomach". The all-important Festival of the Yam marks the beginning of the Nigerian Yoruban calendar year with fasting, sacrificial offerings, and finally, great elaborate feasting.

After this came an elaborate feast.

They were playing grounds for tribal fights and elaborate feasts.

As our elaborate feast unfolded, Stewart ate each course with gusto.

She prepares elaborate feasts; he prefers to sit in bed, eating cereal.

At night Choire cooked us elaborate feasts, and afterward we played Scrabble and watched bad movies.

Or perhaps you have an angry army to appease and believe making an elaborate feast might just do the trick.

Every year since then, the townsfolk of Salemi in southwestern Sicily, have celebrated Saint Joseph's Day by baking breads in strange and intricate shapes for an elaborate feast.

Ms. Walton, who makes Early American-style crafts and has been an artist in residence at Old Sturbridge Village, prepares elaborate feasts in her 1790 Rumford fireplace and beehive oven.

But the government's cutback in spending on state enterprises has left people struggling to meet the expensive outlays for the elaborate feasts associated with the Tet holiday.