Sentence examples for eve festivities from inspiring English sources

The decrease, which would be the industry's first annual decline in eight years, could be seen at the area's three major airports and at Pennsylvania Station, where traffic was down, even counting the mob that gathered for New Year's Eve festivities in Midtown.

The Times Square Alliance estimates that one million people attend the New Year's Eve festivities.

Hens had to work on her for months to get permission to stay up for the New Year's Eve festivities.

With security extremely tight, the police reported seven arrests during New Year's Eve festivities in Times Square.

In January, authorities in Cologne were overwhelmed by reports of sexual assaults that had occurred during New Year's Eve festivities.

PATH trains will operate on a regular weekday schedule, with additional evening trains added as necessary for riders heading to and from New Year's Eve festivities.

As the wedding-eve festivities become more raucous, the groom goes for a swim and disappears, and the guests break up into tipsy search parties.

The crash occurred on the eve of annual festivities at the shrine, which were subsequently cancelled.

Speaking on the eve of the festivities, he said that conditions on the lake looked good the water level was up.

When chants of "Allah-o akbar" - a slogan used by Islamic revolutionaries in the events of 1979 - echoed from neighborhood mosques on the eve of the festivities 10 February, supporters of the Green Movement recalled shouting the same slogan from the city's rooftops as a form of anti-government protest thirty years later, in 2009.

The band returns to New York this week, on the eve of gay-pride festivities, for two performances, Friday and Saturday, at Le Poisson Rouge, in Greenwich Village.