Sentence examples for fest from inspiring English sources

The word "fest" is usable in written English, particularly in informal contexts
It is often used to describe a celebration or festival, especially in compound forms like "beer fest" or "music fest."
Example: "The city is hosting a food fest this weekend, featuring local vendors and live music."
Alternatives: "festival" or "celebration."

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fest

noun

A gathering for a specified reason or occasion.

  • A Renaissance fest

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Banished beat charity dance show, The People's Strictly for Comic Relief, which had 3.1 million viewers (14.6%) at the same time on BBC1, and ITV's nostalgia fest The Nation's Favourite '70s Number One, which had 3.1 million viewers (13.6%) between 8.30pm and 10pm.

Box office: 020-7478 0100 Leeds Comedy Festival Nick Helm, Gein's Family Giftshop and Robin Ince's "(Almost) Farewell" standup performance are among the delights in store at this week-long comedy fest.

But the people here knew about the property fest: they live on the council estates about to be demolished to make way for private developers.

I suspect it's going to be an austere old week in Australian politics – so it's cheery on a Sunday evening to think a drag artist can win Eurovision just because the performance was by far the best offering in the song fest, and that we can be collectively excited about it, watching on, from all around the world.

BBC Question Time became a weekly propaganda fest; press releases flowed from the Department for Education.

But with crucial local elections due in November, even Mr Chávez has begun to worry.In this section Mending an icon Deadly massage Love fest Reprints Related items Colombia and Venezuela Lovee festJul 17th 2008 Brazil: Mending an iconJul 17th 2008A series of interior ministers (about one a year since 1999) has failed to slow the murder rate's seemingly inexorable rise.

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Not for them the anti-competitive, financial-fair-play-ridden*, snore-and-bore-fest that is Bundesliga these days.

There were 15 yellows (or at least there were when this column lost count) in a game that was a cheat-fest, packed with scything challenges, dreadful dives, utter lunacy, appalling refereeing, and some shameful play-acting.

A change of pace after last week's awesome slayer-fest sees Being Human adopt the position of a closed-set teleplay.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 3.58pm BSThe:58 The annual 'gab-fest' On the Foreign Policy blog, Colum Lynch previews today's debate at the UN general assembly, describing it as "the world's annual diplomatic gab-fest".

The political clout of farm states in an election year led to this gross subsidy-fest, with lawmakers falling over themselves to dole out cash to farmers.Unfortunately, the same political considerations have made impossible any principled objections from Mr Bush.

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