Sentence examples for holiday refers from inspiring English sources

The exhibition's title, "Roman Holiday," refers to the fact that the artists lived and worked in Rome on Mr. Simms's Fellowship in Visual Arts, which was awarded to him by the American Academy in Rome.

For those who don't know the expression, a "busman's holiday" refers to leisure time spent doing pretty much what one does at work.

It is increasingly common in some quarters to hear the holiday referred to as "Indigenous People's Day".

BUSINESS DAY An article on Tuesday about Britain's embrace of Halloween as a holiday referred imprecisely to early jack-o'-lanterns in the British Isles.

Former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has a birthday coming up next week, a state holiday referred to as "the day of the shining star"; he would be turning 72, were he still alive.

Some folks actually despise the holiday, referring to it as a "Hallmark" holiday.

McFeat wrote that his Kyrgyz colleagues were queueing for their "special delicacy, the horse's penis" during holiday celebrations, referring to a traditional horse sausage known as chuchuk.

Delving into earlier drafts of "Lady Sings the Blues" and other archival materials, Szwed finds echoes of the book in other published sources to which Holiday had referred Dufty as particularly reliable.

It's an outfit that the Daily Mail, with a typical judgmental sneer, suggested had "brought a touch of the Merry Pranksters to his holiday wardrobe," referring to Ken Kesey's mid-60s troupe of psychedelic evangelists.

The rhythmic, abstract motions of the dance were echoed by artists, among them Will H. Bradley, whose two strong illustrations for The Chap-Book — one a black-and-white abstraction from 1894, the other an 1895 Thanksgiving cover in color of two women in billowing costumes serving holiday fare — refer to this seductive entertainment.

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