holiday
Example Sentences
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Pakistan declared a two-day holiday in the capital.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
In what has all the hallmarks of a staged "scoop", this week's front page carries photographs of the couple taken recently on holiday in Corsica with the headline "The idyll that no-one expected."
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Since the truce was declared, the bombs have fallen silent in Tehran, and the Iranian capital now has the air of a public holiday.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
It is a holiday of contradictions: solemn duty mixed with a picnic spirit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
My parents keep stuff there that they hardly ever need: holiday trim and spare parts for the machines.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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