Sentence examples for festivities this week from inspiring English sources

BOSTON — Three players represented the Yankees at the All-Star festivities this week at Citi Field.

Thousands of exhausted families will head off for a few days' break from festivities this week in a holiday that travel firms have dubbed "Twixmas".

(Car and Driver) Lotus also will mark the end of production of its Elise-derived Exige sports coupe with a matte-black special edition, to be shown during the Pebble Beach collector car festivities this week.

Check out this Buzzfeed video and, if you're an adult getting drunk for St . Patricks Day festivities this week, maybe periodically take a minute and think about whether or not you'se acting like a baby.

Chinese President Hu Jintao, himself a graduate, opened the festivities last week for this event loaded with political and historic significance.

Papelbon performed this service during the All-Star festivities last week, when he mused that he would pick himself to close the game.

Gov. Gray Davis, who spent $3.7 million on inaugural festivities four years ago, is thinking about a modest barbecue this time around, an aide said.

The industry also provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to underwrite inaugural festivities earlier this year.

In Seattle, about 200 police officers in riot gear broke up Mardi Gras festivities early today.

Connecticut Coach Geno Auriemma received a game ball during pregame festivities yesterday in Storrs, Conn., to commemorate his 400th victory earlier this month.

The atmosphere has been sombre despite festivities last week to mark 25 years of independence from the Soviet Union.