(n.) An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
(3) Having been knocked out of the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup before Christmas, they lost an FA Cup fourth-round replay at West Brom on 1 February.
(4) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(5) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(6) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(7) Following its success, Littleloud created a version of the game for Apple's iPad, launched onto the App Store at Christmas.
(8) The "Dream Toys" for Christmas list includes a few old favourites alongside some new, and sparkly, additions.
(9) It is deeply moving hearing him talk now – as if from the grave – about a Christmas Day when he felt so frustrated and cut-off from his family that he had to go into the office to escape.
(10) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(11) On the 18th I will be sitting down to the university Christmas meal two hours after the results are passed on to me.
(12) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
(13) I tried desperately hard not to influence her, but I did steer her away from a baby that I've already bought her for her Christmas present.
(14) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(15) Matt Busby used to say to us that if we were six points off the lead at Christmas we would win the league.
(16) When the owners of Manchester City finally managed to persuade Pep Guardiola to oversee the next stage of their masterplan it is fair to say they probably did not expect to be approaching Christmas scuffling with a team of Watford’s limitations for their first league win at home in almost three months.
(17) It should see the Arctic 30 home in time for Christmas.
(18) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(19) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
(20) The TV campaign, created by ad agency Leo Burnett, uses imagery and motifs more closely associated with Christmas than summer.
Thanksgiving
Definition:
(n.) The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.
(n.) A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macy’s said more than 15,000 people were lined up outside its flagship New York City store when it opened its doors at 6pm on Thanksgiving.
(2) But it is now widely understood this Thanksgiving story is a fictional history.
(3) Record numbers of shoppers hit the stores this weekend for the Thanksgiving Day sales but retail experts are sceptical that the trend can continue into a bumper Monday for online retailers.
(4) Other media reports defined that as a place used for “lewdness, assignation or prostitution.” Norfolk police had arrested Ball and another Richmond man the night before Thanksgiving when they were found together in a parked car in a local park.
(5) Thanksgiving this year should be a worldwide celebration to honor the water protectors and recognize the spiritual battle that has sustained us since the arrival of Columbus,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota.
(6) "I apologise once again to the victims and their families for the terrible suffering that has been brought to bear by these crimes," Pell told a mass of thanksgiving on Thursday night.
(7) I feel that eventually all of these retailers will be open all day on Thursday and Thanksgiving will be nothing but a holiday on a calendar,” said Sozzi.
(8) Now, new employees are always warned, “Just wait until Thanksgiving.” Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays.
(9) This should be the year that water is honored at the Thanksgiving table.” And many enjoy the opportunity to get together with family for a meal, despite the holiday’s origin myth.
(10) As soon as that door opens they are in there and it’s like Black Friday,” Cary said, referring to the manic behaviour of shoppers during the US discount shopping day around Thanksgiving.
(11) John Piper, lead parade designer Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Piper, lead designer, Macy’s Parade Studio for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
(12) A time when we remember a feast, the first Thanksgiving, on Plymouth plantation in the autumn of 1621.
(13) We take care of the customers, but at the same time, I’d wish to have Thanksgiving with my family,” she says.
(14) We really are witnessing history here because we are seeing the shift of the economy – from focused on the state sector to consumption.” Last year, Alibaba’s websites and other Chinese online retailers together sold about $9.3bn worth of goods on Singles Day – about 10 times more than on a typical shopping day in the country and nearly five times the amount sold in the US on Cyber Monday – the Monday following Thanksgiving and the world’s second largest online sales event.
(15) "Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit.
(16) Cumberbatch need not take the news too harshly: the top 10 of flops assembled by the magazine ahead of the annual Thanksgiving holiday in the US is filled with numerous films featuring well known stars.
(17) As millions of American shoppers headed to stores in search of post-Thanksgiving bargains, scores of demonstrators interrupted Black Friday shopping in St Louis as part of a retail boycott over the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson.
(18) Morrissey has attacked President Obama and the tradition of turkey-eating on Thanksgiving, in a blog post on his website entitled 'Thankskilling' .
(19) We want millions of Americans to know that their Thanksgiving is not going to be interrupted by an immigration agent.” Gutiérrez insisted he had not got any inside track on what the White House was or was not planning, despite media reports that action was imminent.
(20) If you don’t win on Thanksgiving, the turkey doesn’t taste so good.