gala opening

Example Sentences

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But if you do attend a gala opening, don’t forget to take it off before you hit the red carpet, or a festival sheriff will “suggest” that you do.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2023

Those attending Thursday night’s gala opening similarly had to offer a negative test result in the last 24 hours.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2021

Above its door are carved in stone the names of the first three dramatists staged there during the gala opening week in 1899: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Ludvig Holberg and Ibsen.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2019

Even by the lowered standards of a gala opening, though, this “Samson” was dim and inert.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 4, 2018

Everywhere she saw well-to-do and prominent persons who had turned out for the gala opening.

From Whispering Walls by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)