Sentence examples for growing holiday from inspiring English sources

Amazon.com reported its second-ever quarterly net profit, buoyed by growing holiday sales in the last three months of 2002, the largest online retailer said Thursday.

With with a 9.6% unemployment rate and ongoing housing problems weighing on consumer spending, stores are pulling out all the stops to grow holiday sales better than last year's 2% increase, but a tough Christmas is still looming.

They are fortunate to have other grandchildren and two daughters, but the gaps are growing, their holiday memories of Chris and his son limited to one bittersweet day at their rural home.

Sarah Waters My first grown-up holiday was in 1987: my girlfriend and I had just finished our finals, and wanted to celebrate with a budget trip to somewhere sunny.

Growing older my holiday food memories become more adventurous.

But eBay is expected to be a growing force this holiday, as shoppers look for unusual bargains.

Consumers who curse the growing stacks of holiday catalogs in their mailboxes have a new alternative: a coalition of environmental groups has introduced a free Web site, CatalogChoice.org, that allows people to remove themselves from more than 1,000 mailing lists.

Growing up, my holiday season usually lasted a bit longer than most of my friends as my family celebrates both Hanukkah and Christmas.