Sentence examples for main festivities from inspiring English sources

Carol singers and parols (traditional star-shaped lanterns made of bamboo or rattan) begin to brighten up the streets from September, but the main festivities kick off on December 16th with the capital's giant lantern festival and street parties culminating on Christmas Eve with a huge family feast.

Fortunately the event's organisers are prepared to ease the newcomers in slowly, with a smattering of press screenings on the opening day – a gentle curtain-raiser ahead of the main festivities.

The mayor's office said the Caribbean Showcase would be aimed at up to 5,000 people, primarily families who would not normally attend the carnival, and would therefore not detract from the main festivities.

BOSTON — Tucked away in a small room down a hallway from the main festivities of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last weekend, a group of luminaries in the sports data revolution gathered for a makeshift curling tournament.

Waitrose managing director, Mark Price, said: "Every year retailers say that Christmas is late, but with some justification in 2013, as customers phased their shopping in line with the mid-week fall of the main festivities".

Across the street from the main festivities of the daylong celebration, Soraya Medina, whose ancestors are part of the Caribbean's Taino tribe, helped assemble the altar.

Friday's Main Stage festivities will be headlined by Aoki, who will be joined by Nicky Romero, Showtek, NERVO, Fedde Le Grand and other producers and DJs.

In Farah province, the main site of the festivities - Kafir Qala - recently saw the killing of three youths out picnicking, supposedly by the Taliban.

Photo: Workers at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center painted hall doors yesterday while the main building reopened for Mardi Gras festivities.

These become particularly impressive along the Esplanade, the final street before the empty desert stretch that takes you out towards the Man, which presides over the festivities as the main orienting landmark.

Coca-Cola, which is also the main sponsor of the Super Bowl festivities in Atlanta this week, is the city's second-largest corporate donor, giving $481,903 in 1999, behind BellSouth, at $742,431, Mr. Stanfill said.