Sentence examples for feasts from inspiring English sources

Assuming vampires only feed once a month ("a highly conservative assumption given any Hollywood vampire film"), and that each time a vampire feasts upon a human their respective populations increase/decrease by 1, a simple geometric progression suggests that vampires would wipe out humans in approximately 2.5 years (assuming arbitrarily that the first vampire appeared in the year 1400).

In an interview early last year he said was getting round his ban on speaking at public forms by addressing the public at funerals and feasts.

Mrs Fantlova's account of life in Auschwitz is as searing as any, for its descriptions of the "showers"; the lashing with whips; hunger, rations and imagined feasts – and the chimneys, forever smoking.

Christening ourselves "the biggies", we stayed up all night talking, sneaking past the adults to gather midnight feasts.

Every night,the women cook fantastic organic free-range feasts, using food that's all produced on site.

The French, prepared to contemplate eating almost anything, report 33 Burns feasts.

It stirred memories of his mother spreading out the special white cloth she used for feasts.

Herd-like behaviour ensures an alternation of feasts and famines.

By the time the traditional cannons signal that it is safe to eat, the streets are deserted and people are tucking into a lavish meal often in mock-Oriental tents.Despite the fast, grocery sales tend to go up during Ramadan, thanks to the evening feasts.

The puffin seems eminently suitable to be our national bird: a dapper little character who is equally at home on sea or land, given to hedonistic feasting when the seasons allow, but also capable of austere self-denial (they spend their winters out in the North Atlantic).

Then migrate to the restaurant proper for a feast of unfussy regional dishes such as pizza diavolo with salami and chilli or maccheroni al' ragu made with suckling lamb shoulder.