festivity

Example Sentences

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Yet amid all the elaborate cultural festivity around the girl’s arrival at womanhood, there’s a sobering catch.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2024

Dozens sat around a garden table in Bortnychi village under a tent decorated with balloons and garlands for a day of festivity steeped in Ukrainian rural tradition.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023

At the crux of the annual festivity, which commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is religiously symbolic foods.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2023

This would provide the local town hall with greater funds and resources for the festivity.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2022

In both his dress and his manner, he disdained all festivity.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein