fiesta

“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it,” he tells Jake early in the novel, before the fiesta, before a lot of things.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The sport just finished off a week-long celebration fiesta for Roger Federer leading into his induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

At the end of the fishing season in Aberaeron, the Ceredigion town hosts a mackerel fiesta, described as "a light-hearted funeral" dedicated to the fast-swimming fish.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Ten men suffered injuries Tuesday during the eighth and final bull run of Spain's famed San Fermin festival, bringing to 57 the total number of daredevils injured during this year's fiesta.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

The fiesta absorbed even the Biarritz English so that you did not see them unless you passed close to a table.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Shops remained closed, bread was in short supply and Ceuta's annual fiestas have been cancelled as Spain's North African enclave struggled to cope after thousands of migrants poured in from neighbouring Morocco.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Valencia regional government Deputy President Aitana Mas has left the door open to debate whether to prohibit these kinds of fiestas, saying that the current legislation is “not enough.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2022

In the band’s early days, the siblings traveled across Mexico playing small-town fiestas, their father doubling as mechanic and their mother cooking whatever they could afford at the market on a charcoal grill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

Villages and towns across Spain hold the fiestas but they were prohibited last year as the country brought in tough health restrictions.

From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2021

“You should go, muchacho. Señor Fidencio has a club for young men there. They have fiestas, good times.”

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty