Sentence examples for festivities this year from inspiring English sources

It will soon be playing at a theatre near you — that is, if you live near where the Tribeca Film Festival is having its festivities this year.

Mr. Biden attended the Iowa ball in Washington during the inauguration festivities this year and invited Democratic officials and activists from this state to his residence for a reception.

Sydney is bursting with crowd-attracting festivities this year.

Mr. Burhans's work was written for Alice Tully Hall's reopening festivities this year.

The hopping from subplot to subplot might be redolent of Love, Actually, but at least there were no Christmas clangers like the demise of lovely Matthew Grantham to spoil the festivities this year.

Those who favor banning the parade gained more ammunition after the festivities this year, which, by all accounts, got astonishingly out of hand soon after the parade ended on Saturday afternoon.

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.