Sentence examples for feast during the from inspiring English sources

"But so long as the war is going on, when people are dying, when they are being detained, this exhibition is like a feast during the famine".

The ghost at the feast during the annual Venice seminar held by the Italian government for British and Italian journalists last weekend was the shadow of Brexit.

While the top six appears set in stone, England's bowling could be a moveable feast during the Tri-Series against Australia and India, such is the uncertainty over its composition.

By this point, Prokofiev had composed two more operas, Desert Islands and The Feast during the Plague, and was working on his fourth, Undina.

Sun-induced hedonism is no longer sustainable – now that the novelty of ordering three buckets of Coronas on a Wednesday night or having a Feast during the work day has subsided a bit, I am forced to ask: are we just "warm" now?

Take the massive annual quail migration from Europe and Eurasia to Africa, combined with a bad storm to blot out the stars which help the birds navigate and throw in some nasty winds... that well-timed feast during the Exodus was entirely plausible, Roth says.

Connected with the hieros gamos ("sacred marriage") of the Mesopotamian Akitu (New Year's festival), and of the Israelite Sukkoth (Feast of Tabernacles)—during the month of Tishri (the first month of the year)—which had both sexual and covenantal overtones, the rite of marriage developed into a legal and religious act in Judaism and into a sacrament in Roman Catholic and Eastern Christianity.

Fox, which had feasted during the day on the brawl between Senator John McCain and Mitt Romney over Bob Dole, spent much of the evening catching up with what Mr. Hume described, ruefully, as Mike Huckabee's "surprising" night.

The school year ends at the final feast, during which Gryffindor wins the House Cup.

When a Yanomamo child died, the parents held a funeral feast during which they consumed the little one's entire body, including the bones, which were ground up, cooked and mixed with plantain.

Some of those losses came to the Padres, White Sox, Reds and Phillies, the kind of teams contenders feast on during the dog days of summer.