(n.) Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(2) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
(3) Here's Rob Booth talking to me from there: Updated at 6.31pm BST 6.14pm BST Disappointment at the Ecuadorian embassy Outside the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge a handful of Assange supporters greeted the decision with disappointment.
(4) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
(5) When the plane bringing his friend in touched down, they were greeted with a recorded welcome from the Queen telling them that they had now arrived in a safe country.
(6) This was greeted by a furious wall of sound from Labour, which only grew when he added: "The last government failed to prioritise compassionate care … they tried to shut down the whistleblowers …" It was pure party-political point-scoring, matched in spades by Labour's Andy Burnham.
(7) China greeted the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s win with fury: a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, attacked the event as a “political farce”.
(8) The sugar tax was greeted with hostility by the industry and Wright argues that the levy, introduced by the chancellor in the budget , will be undermined by flawed analysis of its impact.
(9) As a non-executive director of the football club, it is understood he was largely "meeting and greeting" opposing clubs' directors on matchdays, but he was consulted on financial issues, the appointment of managers and major signings.
(10) The same-sex marriage bill became law, greeted with delight by the gay community and suspicious resentment by many Tories.
(11) The ghastliness of this American shock jock, who, though still obscure to most Britons, is said to be the third most popular radio host in the States, perhaps explains why news of his continued exclusion from the UK was greeted last week with utter indifference.
(12) Someone you haven't seen for a while greets you with a surprised cry of "You look well!".
(13) In any village in South Kivu, his arrival is much like the arrival of the pope – throngs of people greet him, thousands of women whose lives he has saved or healed or touched celebrate him.
(14) Popular magazines, greeting cards, and cartoons weave themes about time into the fabric of other messages.
(15) After that the new pope will be brought out to greet the crowd.
(16) Louis Pasteur's vaccine against rabies, introduced 100 years ago, was greeted by the American medical community with a mixture of praise and skepticism.
(17) They were the same two men who greeted Abu Ali as he crawled through a hole in the border fence to freedom on the night of 25 May 2015, just over four months after he had entered Isis territory.
(18) Yet he never revealed the open resentment with which some of the Kennedy loyalists greeted Johnson.
(19) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
(20) Once through the door, Romney will be greeted warmly by Cameron.
Heyday
Definition:
(interj.) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
(n.) The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
(2) Meals on Wheels has operated in Britain for almost 70 years, and in its heyday delivered more than 34 million meals.
(3) On the contrary, an exquisite haute couture dress - like the ones that Cristóbal Balenciaga created in his 1950s heyday - can look as perfect as a beautiful painting or sculpture.
(4) In its Victorian heyday families would go to Blackpool for a fortnight.
(5) It recalls the heyday of conscious or socially redeeming rap and will be hailed as a restorative for those resistant to recent hip-hop developments.
(6) Back in Duran Duran's heyday, the only communal fan experiences were concerts, playground discussions or sporadic missives from distant pen pals.
(7) Or if Kelly Rowland has got over that mysterious debilitating throat infection which comes on every time she thinks of the heyday of Destiny's Child and juxtaposes it with watching a skeleton in a TK Maxx tracksuit doing falsetto Kylie Minogue.
(8) Black workers were barred from enjoying the full fruits of Detroit’s manufacturing heyday, while black prospective homebuyers were prevented from pursuing the American dream of single family home-ownership .
(9) In its heyday, senior police officers nodded to the power of the "the Fed" in speeches to recruits after basic training.
(10) Under her editorship, the News of the World circulation averaged around 3.5m, less than the 4m it sold during its 1980s heyday, but sales held up at a time when the circulation of many of its rivals were falling sharply.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Galliano in his heyday with Christian Dior, at the finale of his Paris fashion week show in 2009.
(12) Heartbeat, which originally starred Nick Berry as a London policeman transferred to a north Yorkshire village, was for years a mainstay of ITV's Sunday night schedule, attracting audiences of 15 million viewers in its 1990s heyday.
(13) In his mid-Eighties heyday, d'Offay was representing Gerhard Richter, Howard Hodgkin, Gilbert & George and Richard Long as well as showing Carl Andre and Andy Warhol.
(14) Lerner agrees that documentaries are enjoying a heyday.
(15) The last time this effect of the first past the post system was seen was in the 1980s during the heyday of the Liberal-SDP Alliance, when Simon Hughes and Rosie Barnes won famous victories.
(16) He had the whole dinner set.” Educated in Israel and the US, Herzog worked in his father’s prestigious Tel Aviv law firm and entered public life as a Labour MP in 2003, when the party was long past its heyday as the dominant force in Israeli political life, and when the second intifada had grimly underlined the intractability of the conflict with the Palestinians.
(17) Few cities in the developed world can have been put as comprehensively through the wringer as Yubari, on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido and known in its heyday as the capital of coal.
(18) It is in third place in the competitive London commercial market with an average weekly reach of 1.9 million listeners, up from 1.5 million three years ago but a long way down on its 1990s heyday, when it had an audience of more than 3 million.
(19) In effect, Hanningfield wants a return to the heyday of local government, when cities and counties civilised Britain long before a national government developed a social agenda to help communities and people in need.
(20) In Duerson's heyday, she recalls, if a player took a knock, the coach would hold up two fingers and say "how many can you count?