Sentence examples for important festivities from inspiring English sources

Small cash needs are often met by selling small ruminants while cattle are sold when larger sums are required, e.g. to replenish grain stock, for weddings or other important festivities (Sutter 1987).

At important Maya festivities, "they'd pull out their best cacao".

I realized that the smell of pine and paper-white narcissus are as important to festivity as shiny ornaments and tinsel.

Flowers often play important roles in the festivities connected with death rites.

Here, what you're eating isn't as important as being part of the festivities.

Traditional dancing is an important part of national ceremonies and local village festivities.

Music and dance are important elements in Mizo cultural life, with many festivities associated with the Christian holidays.

The start of the festivities marking the Lunar New Year — an important family holiday — had just begun, meaning many of the building's residents may have been hosting friends and relatives.

What's important is that I'll be here for you throughout tonight's festivities, offering commentary on every song, every costume, every botched link, every regrettable piece of geographically-specific performance art masquerading as a halftime interval.

Whitsuntide, Christmas, and Easter are important, each associated with their own musical traditions, as are distinctly Barbadian festivities like the crop over festival and the Landship movement.

We continued important traditions for our children and their children, and we ended the festivities with pecan pie and whipped cream.