Sentence examples for popular occasions from inspiring English sources

The Memorial Day and Mother's Day holidays, popular occasions for brunch, spurred more demand in the United States, a department spokesman said.

Banquets held on fish days could be splendid, and were popular occasions for serving illusion food that imitated meat, cheese and eggs in various ingenious ways; fish could be molded to look like venison and fake eggs could be made by stuffing empty egg shells with fish roe and almond milk and cooking it in coals.

For Thanksgiving, in fact, Golden Unicorn was fully booked, Mr. Yau said, since the holiday has become a popular occasion for Asian weddings.

More than one billion valentines will be exchanged in the United States this year, American Greetings predicts, making Valentine's Day the second most popular occasion for holiday greeting cards, after Christmas.

(On the most popular occasion to host a barbecue the Fourth of July Americans spent nearly $2 billion on cookouts alone, according to BIGresearch).

In fact, Labor Day is the third most popular occasion to barbecue, with 55% of all American households expecting to bring out the grill for the holiday, according to HPBA's State of the Barbecue Industry report.

Coral spokesman Simon Clare said: "The Grand National is one of Britain's most popular sporting occasions, with two-thirds of the adult population likely to place a bet.

Charles March, the Oxford-educated heir to the current Duke of Richmond, has built the event into one of Britain's most popular sporting occasions, drawing crowds of 150,000 each year.

The building has been associated with popular culture occasions.

On several occasions popular resentment against the Copts' conspicuous wealth and their employment in the government was manifested in public demonstrations.

So popular are the occasions that some participants are somewhat taken aback by the fervor of fans wanting to pay their respects.