Sentence examples for gala start from inspiring English sources

Bidding will start at $10,000 and tickets to the gala start at $600.

Tickets for the Streisand-headlined gala start at $1,200 and top out at $250,000, while the tickets that remain for Cher's event start at $2,700.

The gala started, appropriately, with kids dancing, five students from the school ascending and descending five staircases to Steve Reich's "Tokyo/Vermont Counterpoint" in Mr. Feld's 2004 piece "A Stair Dance".

And on Sunday the festival's closing gala starts with jazz in the afternoon with the Bill Charlap Trio and finishes after a break for cocktails with a recital by Ju-Ying Song. Ju-Ying Song

Legalities aside, the Hookies were a bona fide gala, starting with the red carpet entrance, where Michael Lucas and Michael Musto schmoozed alongside the best and brightest men money can buy.

First seating: "Frame Dances" at 7 p.m. and "Adamantine" at 8 p.m.; second seating: "Adamantine" at 8 p.m. and "Frame Dances" at 9 15 p.m. Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, Manhattan, (212) 868-4444, smarttix.com; $25 $200 for "Adamantine" only; gala tickets start at $150 and can be ordered by calling (212) 212-0005.

Still miffed, a year after the fact, that your name was somehow left off the guest list to Tina Brown's gala Talk start-up party?

The awards gala, which started in 2001, has given them greater visibility.

The harvest of Honeycrisps and Galas usually starts in late August, while varieties like the Cripps Pink and Fuji are picked as late as early December.

Prices for the New Year's Eve gala vary, but start at about 110 euros a person, which includes dinner and Champagne at midnight; 220 euros includes dinner, drinks and music performances.

In homage to the dedication of the West 55th Street building in 1943 by his predecessor Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mr. Bloomberg will conduct the Encores! orchestra at the gala reopening to start a celebratory season at the landmark city-owned hall originally built as the Ancient Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in 1923.