Sentence examples for festive welcome from inspiring English sources

They were given a festive sendoff, and a festive welcome home.

Young and old paraded in new clothes, many carried sheaves of auspicious sugar cane for decorating their homes, and in front of almost every house a rangoli pattern of coloured powder and rice flour offered a festive welcome.

At about the time Mr. Schilling was being kidnapped, the six recently freed hostages were arriving to a festive welcome today in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after being flown there on a Libyan airliner.

The festive welcome in Sacramento (bands playing, bells ringing, and people standing on balconies and rooftops waving flags, singing, and shouting) was repeated hours later in San Francisco after the mail was conveyed to its final destination by the large side-wheeler steamboat Antelope.

Philippine typhoon survivors get a warm, even festive welcome.

It also gives the audience a welcome festive respite from the unremitting grimness of the whole enterprise.

There can be few more festive ways to welcome guests to your home at Christmas than a hand-made wreath hanging on your front door.

Before we crack open the Champagne bottles to toast the reinvigoration of the musical theater, the festive rites to welcome the new year must be prepared for, endured, recovered from.

Wednesday welcomes festive comedy Office Christmas Party, starring Jason Bateman, TJ Miller and Jennifer Aniston.

After the Civil War, this festive, haughty style struck a welcome note: cathartic exuberance after the carnage.

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