Sentence examples for modest holiday from inspiring English sources

Every year after Thanksgiving, I put up some modest holiday lights and decorations.

Saturday evenings were spent playing board games, summers were passed at a modest holiday camp.

It was built in the 1920s as a modest holiday destination for blue-collar workers arriving by train from New York, but by the time of the jet age, the city had fallen into complete disrepair.

Originally conceived, it is said, as a modest holiday house with a swimming pool, it now boasts a magnificent columned facade reminiscent of the country palaces Russian tsars built in the 18th Century.

Adrian Parsons, the lone remaining Occupy DC hunger striker, has more modest holiday plans.

But for many, the plans to turn the unpaid days into modest holidays spent appreciating the simple things in life like afternoon movies, walks in the park, naps or trips to see Grandma have given way to a different reality.

They have to ask themselves whether working on Thanksgiving is worth a small holiday bonus on top of a modest base wage.

They could switch jobs more or less at will, insure their health, cars and possessions and expect to take at least a modest foreign holiday.

(Sulcas) ★ Fire Island Dance Festival (Friday through Sunday) This summer festival has one of the nicest and most low-key summer settings imaginable — on the lovely strip of beach and (mostly) modest wooden holiday homes in the Pines neighborhood of Fire Island.

Indeed, it is not just the winner that wins here – for a very modest outlay holiday companies are boosting their social media presence, and there have been a string of such opportunities offered by savvy travel operators.

A Walk on the Moon (1999, 15, Paramount, VHS/Rental) Produced by Dustin Hoffman, this fine directorial debut by actor Tony Goldwyn is set at a modest Jewish holiday resort in the Catskills where the mother, wife (Diane Lane), 14-year-daughter (Anna Paquin) and seven-year-old son of hard-working, frustrated New York television repair man (Liev Schreiber) are spending the summer of 1969.