Sentence examples for only advent from inspiring English sources

At the beginning of every December, my only advent ritual is to curl up in a blanket and laugh with Buddy on a cold day.

Though the set literally counts down to Christmas, it does not trade in religious imagery or mention the holiday by name, only Advent.

And these aren't the only Advent mysteries: just how did this God-child come to be?

It was only the advent of carrier-based aviation that saw the end of the huge battleships and their strategic importance.

Only the advent of rain or a run-chase that surpasses any other in the history of Test cricket can deny England.

Many claim that people were once tuned to the moon's rhythms and only the advent of firelight and then artificial light have altered this natural synchrony.

But last Saturday I opened the Family section of this paper and saw two pages that asked me to make not only an Advent candle plate, but also a Christmas gingerbread house, glass biscuits, and my own floral wreath.

His term has included not only the advent of the Internet and online digital services, but also global partnerships with other national libraries, the enactment of his proposal for a world digital library, large expansions of audiovisual materials and efforts at their preservation, and the library's initial joint projects with a public-private advisory council and fundraising.

It's reminiscent of deeply seasonal and regional food: a kind of cake baked only on Advent Sunday (Byrd's spiky "Laetentur coeli"), or a damson that ripens only on the seventh Sunday after Easter (Tallis's glossolalic "Loquebantur variis linguis").

Only the advent of the Second World War revived the economy.

In this era of increased and indiscriminate antibiotic usage, it is not only the advent of multi-drug resistant pathogens, but also the rising prevalence of Clostridium difficile Associated Diarrhoea (CDAD) which is drawing concern world-wide.