Sentence examples for recent festivities from inspiring English sources

Add them to your tea and enjoy a minty reminder of recent festivities.

By Alex Watt January 19 , 2016Add them to your tea and enjoy a minty reminder of recent festivities.

During recent festivities celebrating the country's founding, the parade featured floats with economic slogans and no ICBMs.

A small but seemingly growing number of Han Chinese, the country's ethnic majority, are attracted by Tibetan Buddhism (Han visitors to Kumbum Monastery thronged around its statues and clasped their hands in prayer during the recent festivities).

At the headquarters of Karaite Judaism in this city southeast of Tel Aviv, the recent festivities were in full swing for the new moon and what the movement's calender says is the start of the Hebrew month of Elul.

Though born in the same year, their careers proceeded very differently — at the age of nineteen, Rollins was already recording with such luminaries as Bud Powell and Fats Navarro (and, for that matter, the drummer Roy Haynes, who was on hand for the recent festivities as well), and he would quickly join bands led by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Clifford Brown.

Then news broke that a 15-year-old majorette who performed at some of President Barack Obama's recent inauguration festivities has been shot to death in Chicago.

They helped organize protests with nonanarchists groups, including one to counter the city's recent Pride festivities because they believe the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender event had become too celebratory without focusing on those who are still marginalized.

Keller does not propose a solution to San Francisco's complex and intractable civic conundrum, though he does seem to cite approvingly the controversial "sweeps" of the homeless during the recent Super Bowl festivities: I don't have a magic solution … It is a very difficult and complex situation, but somehow during Super Bowl, almost all of the homeless and riff raff seem to up and vanish.

In recent years, the festivities have been preceded by live entertainment, including performances by musicians.

In recent years, the festivities seem to be more focused on crude humor than sexual liberation.