CELEBRATION in a Sentence

Learn CELEBRATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
168 example sentences for CELEBRATION, such as:
1. These are two celebrated ones.
2. He has become celebrated as an artist.
3. The show is a celebration of new young talent.
4. May your birthday be a celebration of the life.
5. The city is celebrated for its beautiful scenery.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CELEBRATION
celebration
 n.  a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event
 n.  the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  Everybody gave parties in celebration and the fire department was kept busy fighting the flames that spread from the bonfires of jubilant small boys.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
2  A charming informality was one of the characteristics of this celebration.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  At home, also, there was more good news; so much of it at once that there was quite a celebration in Aniele's hall bedroom.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  The remnants of the family had quite a celebration that night; and in the morning Jurgis was at the place half an hour before the time of opening.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  For in its celebration many beasts were slaughtered, and this being a cruel spectacle imparted a cruel temper to the worshippers.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
6  Harper, of the University of Chicago, who was chairman of the committee of invitations for the celebration to be held in the city of Chicago, to deliver one of the addresses at the celebration there.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
7  An impromptu celebration of the victory was held immediately.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
8  The most suitable fete the Germans can devise for him is a celebration of Jena and Auerstadt.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
9  The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the celebration of love takes place.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
10  London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
11  Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  These are two celebrated ones.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
13  But Alexey Alexandrovitch, my celebrated brother-in-law, you surely must know.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 17
14  The celebrated physician, a very handsome man, still youngish, asked to examine the patient.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
15  After a careful examination and sounding of the bewildered patient, dazed with shame, the celebrated doctor, having scrupulously washed his hands, was standing in the drawing room talking to the prince.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  We hope this celebration to usher in the new century.
2  For those lucky enough to glimpse the motorcade of the royals as they drive the distance from the capital's airport, this is a day of celebration.
3  I know for a fact that several members of the group were deeply involved in centennial celebration activities.
4  For my brother the celebration of his sobriety is as significant as his birthday.
5  A celebration with roots in history, that has developed and spread spontaneously, is preferable to picking the birthday of a single man.
6  May your birthday be a celebration of the life.
7  The show is a celebration of new young talent.
8  I take great pleasure in sending here with a little wedding present in celebration Of the happy event.
9  The heavy expenses involved in his marriage celebration cancelled out the possible pleasure he'd have.
10  With an outsize extravaganza that reached deep into the repertory of classical music and ballet, traversed the sights and sounds of the world's largest geopolitical expanse, soared into outer space and swept across millenniums of history in a celebration of everything from czarist military might to Soviet monumentalism, a swaggering, resurgent Russia turned its Winter Olympic aspirations into reality on Friday night.
11  It should have been a time for celebration in the predominately Muslim country of Malaysia, as families prepare for festivities to mark the end of the Ramadan fasting period.
12  He has become celebrated as an artist.
13  The city is celebrated for its beautiful scenery.
14  He and Helen celebrated their silver wedding last year.
15  Pope John Paul celebrated mass today in a city in central Poland.