Sentence examples for marked gift from inspiring English sources

By Elsa Wolf and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, November 16, 1946 P. 23 Philological Monkey Wrench In the Machinery of World Peace Note: Christmas packages sent to Germany must be marked "Gift" - the German word for "Poison".

Seven programs marked "gift" or "not seen" Series X. PhD.

Then, as now, Boyd showed a marked gift for getting and holding a reader's attention — particularly a reader intrigued by his unmistakable respect for, and admiration of, the female sex.

One began: "The Jews, with their marked gift for calculating, live, already for the longest time, according to the principle of race, which is why they are resisting its consistent application with utmost violence".

He showed a marked gift for music and became a pupil in Halle of the composer Friedrich W. Zachow, learning the principles of keyboard performance and composition from him.

How callously I'd marked the gift "return to sender".

As usual the occasion was marked by gifts of stodgy pastries known as mooncakes, often containing a solid yolk representing that day's full moon.

He did, but left behind an old dairy creamer container marked "Christmas Gifts".

Be sure to mark it "gift to reduce the debt held by the public".

But there is only joy about marking the gift that Shakespeare has given the people of this country and the world for the past 400 years.

It is also the weekend when Christians celebrate Pentecost, marking the gift of the Holy Spirit to Jesus' disciples, who as a result felt a new power to reach others, symbolized by the Apostle Peter's ability to overcome all barriers of language in preaching the Gospel that day.