How To Use Celebrated In A Sentence

  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
  • When my sister taught at a junior school they celebrated all the religious festivals.
  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
  • Fr. Stephen celebrated fifty years as a priest recently and the occasion was marked by the concelebration of Mass in St. Patricks Church, Clonbur on last Friday evening.
  • Eid al Fitr in Oman is celebrated over a period of three days after the end of the month of Ramadan. Global Voices in English » Oman: Eid on Twitter
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  • No individual hero is celebrated in The Four Days, no single villain vilipended.
  • A celebrated public speaker, he established the tradition of commemorative oratory in the United States.
  • Kaysersberg; finally, in one of the vestries is the epitaph, in german verses, of the celebrated printer John Mentelin of Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg
  • Tuesday at 3 p.m. place-holders started showing up outside the restaurant Galatoire's to stand in line so their well-heeled patrons can enjoy trout amandine and souffle potatoes Friday during the celebrated pre-Fat Tuesday fest. Archive 2005-02-01
  • But marketing alone cannot explain why "onanism" and related terms began to show up in the great eighteenth-century encyclopedias or why one of the most influential physicians in France, the celebrated Samuel Auguste David Tissot, took up the idea of masturbation as a dangerous illness or why Tissot's 1760 work, L'Onanisme, became an instant European literary sensation. Me, Myself, and I
  • frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes
  • At the height of the craze, I stood on the North Bank at Highbury in a forest of bananas, watching awestruck as they celebrated another goal going in by either bopping your neighbour over the head, or simply chucking the thing in the air.
  • Having always celebrated the anniversary of their first meeting, once they tie the knot they then have another anniversary to remember.
  • Having proved myself the fount of all world knowledge, I returned Lisa to Brighton on Tuesday evening, in time for our 7 month anniversary on Wednesday, a landmark we celebrated with a visit to the drive-thru McDonalds.
  • ‘Community is celebrated, especially by urban community leaders and activists,’ Patterson writes, but ‘the truth is that Afro-Americans lead the nation in their unconnectedness to community support groups.’
  • Alfo a vicarage in roth Nov. Here were alfo three celebrated dioc. of Lifmore, fit. in bar. Topographia hibernica : or The topography ofIreland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom; with its antiquities, natural curiosities, trade, manufactures, extent and population
  • Pericles' celebrated hetaera, Aspasia, came from Miletos. Miletos Tristesse
  • The year is filled with important religious events, and all localities are identified with patron saints who are celebrated, somewhat competitively, with fireworks and festa pageantry, including processions.
  • To many people, John XXIII was the Kennedy pope, and Vatican II was his Camelot a glorious, Roman Catholic version of the New Deal and the New Frontier that would move Catholicism from the medieval past into a rosy future of social equality, in which mass would be celebrated in the vernacular, nuns' habits would be modernized, and the popemobile would replace the traditional gestatorial chair as a form of papal transportation. Philocrites: May 2005 Archives
  • Republic Day was also celebrated at all sub division/tehsil/block headquarters of the district. Patriotism & gaiety marked the 61st Republic Day celebrations at Leh & Kargil of Ladakh division
  • On July 11, 1961, the Independent State of Katanga celebrated the first anniversary of its independence by opening an 'International Trade Fair' at Elisabethville. The End of White Rule?
  • Onchocerciasis eliminated from west Africa: Officials from the World Health Organization last week celebrated the elimination of onchocerciasis, or river blindness, as a public health threat in west Africa.
  • Cyril Connolly had been a contemporary at Eton, and painted the most celebrated pen-portrait of the Prime Minister-to-be in 1938.
  • He celebrated his birthday at a glitzy party in Beverly Hills.
  • Mass for the repose of her soul was celebrated by Father Gilroy after which burial took place in Annagh Cemetery.
  • Lengeling provides tables of the frequency of readings from both Testaments in fourteen Western liturgical books but without indicating where there might be only one such usage on the vigil of a feast not celebrated widely.
  • PRIESSNITZ, the celebrated founder of hydropathy, died at Graefenberg on the 26th of November, at the age of fifty-two. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
  • A celebrated playwright of South Africa, Athol Fugard began his career in a courtroom.
  • His Requiem Mass was celebrated in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  • I knew I could never return because soon it would cease to exist, along with the lives, emotions and memories of its inhabitants, the ordinary, forgotten, unmourned, uncelebrated people of history.
  • Some of those unable to get to one of these Tweet-ups are contenting themselves with a glass of something cold at home – indeed, some of the Antipodean members have already celebrated! Online communities meeting offline « pwcom 2.0
  • This, apparently, was the very room from which Monet painted his celebrated views of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament, hung in (acceptable) reproduction around the walls of the pretty, panelled sitting room. The Smartest Hotel in the World
  • In Britain many were based on parish churches or, especially, Nonconformist chapels; the celebrated Huddersfield Choral Society was founded in 1836.
  • The city is celebrated for its beautiful scenery.
  • Liechtenstein´s national day is celebrated on Assumption Day.
  • They also star as Ronnie and Sammi, whose hot/cold romance is celebrated in an impassioned duet with a title unprintable here. NYT > Home Page
  • Bradman hit only one four in front of the wicket on the off, but 14 to the on by means of drives and his celebrated pull.
  • There will be Mass celebrated on this date at 3pm, in the Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Dublin.
  • But his flashy lifestyle and taste for violence have made him the most feared -- and the most celebrated.
  • The booklet was first published in 1985, the year which celebrated the centenary of the motorcar, and explores the part that Croydon played in its history and development.
  • We have indeed reached some significant milestones around here of late, and it's high time we celebrated with a flagon of ale, a buxom wench or two, and our very first CONTEST on CROM! Archive 2010-03-01
  • They are an expression of the holiness of the mystery that is being celebrated; of the actio Dei in which we participate. Archive 2009-02-01
  • John Milton, the high-minded creator of "Paradise Lost," along with some of the most celebrated sonnets, elegies and other written works in the English Language, may have also written the decidedly low-minded poem "An Extempore Upon a Faggot. John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem
  • It is celebrated with fiestas, parades, and fireworks.
  • It all happened just after a celebrated case of incendiarism; the preliminary investigation lasted two days; we were exhausted. The Wife
  • And technology is most celebrated when it is most invisible—when the machinery is completely hidden, combining godlike effortlessness with blissful ignorance about the mechanisms that deliver our disburdened lives. The Secular Prophet
  • Are there in fact two different types of twitter out there - one of them online, 140 characters and a hash tag, recently popularised by the Pope, the other an uncelebrated thing that birds do? Leo Johnson: The two Types of Twitter
  • Read in studio Britain's first jet fighter, the Gloucester Meteor celebrated it's fiftieth birthday today.
  • On one shoulder was fixed the painted figure of an owl; and he bore in the right hand his pastoral staff, and in the left a small mirror having a handle to it, thus resembling a celebrated jester, whose adventures, translated into English, were whilom extremely popular, and which may still be procured in black letter, for about one sterling pound per leaf. The Abbot
  • Amid the midsummer heat and the excitement in central London, as citizens celebrated Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the principal contenders were becoming clear.
  • The night before the marathon, the Rosses celebrated their anniversary at an Upper West Side Japanese restaurant, located beneath the apartment where he lived when a podiatry student.
  • In vain he travelled to the most esteemed saints and the most celebrated martyries. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
  • The pair, both 73, decided to quit on the same day they celebrated their golden wedding.
  • In 1853, Bayard Taylor, the most celebrated travel writer in antebellum America (and the subject of chapter 8), was able to visit several of China’s largest coastal cities because, after the Opium War, the Treaty of Nanjing (1842) made such excursions possible by opening up additional ports to foreign intercourse. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
  • He then celebrated in quintessential Paterson style, sprinting away down the line while furiously dabbing.
  • Out of these, when properly pounded together, Guapo intended to make the celebrated "barbasco," or fish-poison, which is used by all the Indians of South America in capturing fish. Popular Adventure Tales
  • He has become celebrated as an artist.
  • Victor Hugo , 1802 --- 1885 , was a celebrated French literary giant.
  • “A poor forlorn and ignorant stranger, unacquainted with the very Alcoran of the savage tribe whom you are come to reside among — Never to have heard of Markham, the most celebrated author on farriery! then I fear you are equally a stranger to the more modern names of Gibson and Bartlett?” Rob Roy
  • Over at the sheep pens, Whittington farmer James Airey celebrated as his two-year-old Suffolk gimmer shearling took the title of supreme sheep champion.
  • These days, Midsummer is celebrated with songs, feasts, and dancing around the maypole.
  • This exceptional but as yet uncelebrated baritone rejoices in a lean, spinning, perfectly focused tone of unfailing natural beauty and vibrancy, while his grasp of Verdi style and phrasing is all but complete.
  • They were married at Chiseldon, Wiltshire, and recently celebrated their diamond wedding.
  • And, because we are realistic, right-thinking leftists, we understand that interspecies carnivorism is celebrated among Insect-Canadians, adding another community of insect villagers. Summer of the Ants
  • Action against public disorder should be among the basic policies of any government, taken as a matter of course rather than celebrated as the result of blue-sky thinking.
  • Widely celebrated environmentalist John Todd doesn't promise that his aquatic bioremediation system - a sewage treatment system which involves floating plant islands that purify polluted waters - could live up to its hype in Montreal.
  • The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), — the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of Burlesques
  • He was known as a zealous puritan, and had given his sister in marriage to the celebrated Edmund Cartwright the leader of the sect. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
  • The Philosophical Transactions, * [629] in the last century contain accounts of Cesarean section performed by an ignorant butcher and also by a midwife; and there are many records of the celebrated case performed by Jacob Nüfer, a cattle gelder, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • When in the early 1970s structuralist approaches to understanding human behavior predominated, George mused about Mary Douglas's celebrated analysis of New Guinea subincision rites (the ritual splitting of the penis lengthwise) as an inscription of the bifurcated moiety system on the bifurcated body. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : The Fox
  • Long an object of fervent Gnostic and Hermetic speculations, it was now extolled as the ideal type of the human being, and celebrated accordingly in literature and art, especially among the Symbolists and the Decadents.
  • The summer solstice is a holiday that is celebrated throughout the northern hemisphere. Five Things You Might Not Know About Summer Solstice | myFiveBest
  • Orkney's oldest resident celebrated her birthday on Wednesday, reaching the grand old age of 103.
  • He celebrated later with the team in the locker room, even dabbing with Paul.
  • So he went to Wheeler's and celebrated in oysters and a half-bottle of champagne. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
  • In the century and a half that she has stood there, poised to award that outstretched laurel crown, many women who deserve the honours have passed by uncelebrated.
  • Ramesses claimed the victory from this drawn fight, celebrated in monumental funerary temple reliefs still visible at Thebes on the Nile.
  • Duncan and Klein, along with virulently antiprogressive DC schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, are celebrated by politicians and pundits. Arne Duncan: The Darling of the Disruptors and Preserver of the Status Quo
  • The celebrated enameller William Beilby served an apprenticeship in copper enamelling in Birmingham from 1755.
  • I've celebrated Mass with the Catholics and served as a choir director and cantor.
  • While it would be additionally wonderful were the Mass to be celebrated ad orientem (it will be celebrated versus populum) the use of the original high altar with its ciborium is a spectacular bit of news. Installation of Vincent Nichols to Westminster to be Celebrated at Original High Altar
  • It seemed worthwhile sharing some photos taken by Vernon Quaintance from St. Augustine's Abbey in Ramsgate, which shows a recent Mass there in the modern form of the Roman liturgy, which was celebrated on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the monastic profession of the Very Rev. Dom Benedict Austen, OSB this past March 21st, 2009. St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate
  • Though celebrated for her work on Disney's hugely successful "Lion King" musical and on films such as "Frida" and "The Tempest," Ms. Taymor has also frequently been described as a micromanager, accused of devoting all her attention to the details of a production while turning a blind eye to budget. 'Spidey' Director's Role Is Cut
  • Returning to England as "the Heroine of the Crimea", she used personal illness (a disabling condition that Bostridge and his peers identify as brucellosis) to hold her family at bay so as to be free to focus on the business of sanitary and medical reform for which she has become justly celebrated. Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
  • Leaders were celebrated for their courage and risk-taking when shaping corporate strategies.
  • He had been out, I believe, in 1715 and 1745, was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, among other exploits, for having fought a duel with the broadsword with the celebrated Rob Roy MacGregor at the clachan of Balquidder. Waverley
  • In the play s celebrated central act they get riotously tipsy as they await the nocturnal arrival of the Gallic Romeo.
  • Friends and family gathered and the revellers celebrated into the small hours.
  • On Epiphany morning, the Lutheran-Episcopal full communion will be rendered official and celebrated at Washington's National Cathedral.
  • Another celebrated bandit was the zambo, Jose Rayo. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
  • About a mile behind and to the east of the village the hills commence, but they are very barren, being covered with scanty coarse grass and scattered trees of the Melaleuca cajuputi, from the leaves of which the celebrated cajeput oil is made. The Malay Archipelago
  • Meanwhile, inside the Grand Hyatt's Independence Ballroom, 273 spellers celebrated the complexity of our language in all its glory, correctly spelling words like zaibatsu, vibrissae and biauriculate, according to The Associated Press. Moultrie Observer Homepage
  • Canon Richard Phillips celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood on the 14th June.
  • Lucknow was a centre of culture, celebrated for its poetry, drama, music and art.
  • A film about celebrated pizza man Domenico DeMarco, of Brooklyn's Di Fara Pizza, will be paired with pies from the shop. A Theater Where Eating Is Definitely Allowed
  • He celebrated 40 years of being the most famous plotter on the planet.
  • In the basement club of the Ace Hotel on Thursday, the actor Alan Cumming and the perfumer Christopher Brosius celebrated "2nd Alan Cumming," the fragrance they created together. A Fragrant Fête
  • It was on the unusual catwalk of a waterborne battlecraft that some of the finest collections of two of Italy's celebrated fashion designers were showcased in Mumbai recently.
  • Ordinal numbers are used in these sentences: 'She was fifth in the race' and 'They celebrated the 200th anniversary of the university's foundation'.
  • ” But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: for thirteen years he lived a double lifeas the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd. Passing Strange: Summary and book reviews of Passing Strange by Martha Sandweiss.
  • They celebrated their win, in time - honoured fashion, by spraying champagne everywhere.
  • The whole rite of this day is celebrated in violet vestments; therefore, this change of vestments present no particular difficulties. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 1 - The Palm Sunday Blessing and Procession of Palms
  • One of these was the celebrated Count Maurice of Nassau, brother of Frederick Henry, King of Holland. World’s Great Men of Color
  • Nine staff members celebrated the opening by cutting a ribbon and cracking open a bottle of champagne.
  • n. announcement of the Incarnation to Mary, mother of Jesus; feast celebrated on Lady Day (March 25); Annunciation lily, madonna lily. annunciative, annunciatory, anobiid Xml's Blinklist.com
  • Since the 1880s, the national culture has celebrated the underdog - the Eureka gold miners, sheep stealing swaggies, renegade bushrangers, and striking shearers.
  • Ever before the celebration of his mass, ere he revested him, he kneeled down before the altar, and devoutly made his prayer, weeping and piteously sighing, and oft-times as he celebrated his mass plenty of tears fell from his eyes along his face. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
  • St. Gildas, in the twelfth century, had Abelard for superior, who, on his appointment, made over to Eloise the celebrated abbey he had founded at Nogent, near Troyes, which he called the Paraclete or Comforter, because he there found comfort and refreshment after his troubles, but his peace soon ended on his arrival in Brittany. Brittany & Its Byways
  • Three local rowers, two of them oarsmen who learned their skills on the River Aire as fellow pupils at Bradford Grammar School, celebrated victory at the Henley Royal Regatta.
  • In the eighth century we read (Vita Stephani, III) of the most ancient custom in virtue of which seven of these bishops, called hebdomadarii, celebrated Mass in turn in place of the pope and were called episcopi cardinales, from being permanently attached to the cardo, that is the cathedral church of Rome; but we are not told who they were. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • Impossible to describe without using the word lurid, Leave Her to Heaven features more perverse activity than any number of more celebrated cult faves-including Nicholas Ray's infamous Joan Crawford western New York Press
  • In Arabian-Islamic cultural history, Tabari is a celebrated explainer of the Koran, expert of Hadith, jurist of Islamic law and historian.
  • Nearby, the celebrated "Self-Portrait with a Palette," made in Paris that fall, introduces the intense 25-year-old artist; he glances slightly away, his heavy-lidded dark eyes briskly outlined in an "Iberian" mask. The Cubist Circle
  • A sacred meal was celebrated of bread and haoma juice for which in the West wine was substituted. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • In 1824, claims about a Washington widow's miracle cure were celebrated by some, called humbug by others—and sparked a debate among Catholics and Protestants. A Mixed Blessing
  • His stark garage tunes - inflected by house and hip hop - celebrated late-night, low rent Britain in all its lairy glory.
  • There will be themed events each weekend and in the final week our Viking heritage will be celebrated with saga, dance and song.
  • Writing retrospectively in The Rights of Man, Paine also celebrated the self-constituted popular committees which (Paine believed) from 1775 to 1777 successfully governed the new nation. History from Below
  • Multiculturalism is celebrated in many places around the world; there is no reason why Keighley shouldn't be proud of theirs.
  • Surging onto the floor to call a second-half timeout, WSU coach Ken Bone slipped and fell to the Hec Edmundson Pavilion deck, maybe the most celebrated pratfall in Seattle since Tommy Lasorda's keister hit the third-base coach's box at the 2001 All-Star Game at Safeco Field. The Seattle Times
  • But here we are forbidden to walk shodden over sacred ground and details of the cruise must be confined to generalities; otherwise the travels of the celebrated Gulliver would be eclipsed, Baron Munchausen lose his claim to veracity, and the shade of the venerable Miller slink back to its original punishment. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
  • He told me that one day this summer (when the Brontes had been for about four months receiving instruction from him) he read to them Victor Hugo's celebrated portrait of Mirabeau, "mais, dans ma lecon je me bornais a ce qui concerne _Mirabeau orateur_. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
  • Zunyi Medical College (ZMC), a key medical college at the provincial level in Guizhou Province, is located in Zunyi, a historically, culturally and scenically celebrated city.
  • This was the African American artistic movement of the 1920s which celebrated black life and culture.
  • The post office centralizing the town celebrated its 20th anniversary yesterday.
  • Three Kings Day is celebrated on January 6, twelve days after Christmas.
  • In this poem, completed and published in 1713, he proceeded, as Virgil had done, from the pastoral vein to the georgic and celebrated the rule of Queen Anne as the Latin poet had celebrated the rule of Augustus. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Quote of the Day
  • Our most under-celebrated songsmith by a mile. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now every place where the Meal of the Lord is celebrated is made holy by this divine presence.
  • Unlike Stephenson, another ‘buried’ jewel of a hitter, Johnson never had the good fortune of at least playing for a winner before retreating into the status of an uncelebrated star.
  • DILI: East Timor celebrated the 10th anniversary of its popular consultation on Sunday, with the main streets and government offices in Dili decorated with colorful flags Minister Kevin Rudd's scandal-plagued Labour Party in the state of New South WN.com - Articles related to Japan Leads Rally; Steel Stocks Up
  • These have-a-go-heroes are celebrated in this new series. The Sun
  • This left the celebrated poacher Novo free to drift into a more central, and potentially more promising, striking position.
  • Catholic community that celebrated Mass each Sunday in a chapel on the campus of Georgetown University.
  • The series opens with " Woman in the Dunes, " a film celebrated for its spareness in which Takemitsu ' s sound design is virtually a character, even as his electronically manipulated music — compressed strings, plinking percussion — is used stintingly. Japanese Cinema
  • And yesterday their hard work was celebrated at Harewood House in Leeds at a special event bringing together dogs and their partners, trainers and volunteer fund-raisers.
  • And yet surely it is a vision worth celebrating, worth giving thanks for if we see it in terms of the embrace of the intellect by the church as issuing in that confident freedom, that liberty not to be manipulated, not to be bullied, not to be deluded, which is celebrated in our epistle. Archbishop Celebrates Selwyn College's 125th Anniversary
  • Darwin celebrated the nasty side of life -- brutal competition. Nigel Barber: Why Greed Is Bad for Capitalism
  • French anatomist, celebrated as the founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology.
  • A cousin of the bride celebrated the Mass and officiated at the ceremony.
  • Aaschik Pasha, who was a dervis and celebrated ascetic poet in the reign of Murad (Amurath) I. Ahmed, the author of the work, lived during the reign of Bajazet I.., but, he says, derived much information from the book of Scheik Jachshi, the son of Elias, who was I.aum to Sultan History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
  • It was in fact a kind of nuptial hymn, which, taking its start from the thought of nature as the universal mother, celebrated the preliminary pairing and mating together of all fresh things, in the hot and genial spring-time -- the immemorial nuptials of the soul of spring itself and the brown earth; and was full of a delighted, mystic sense of what passed between them in that fantastic marriage. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
  • James Conor Coleman, Cross, Edmondstown recently celebrated the sacrament of Baptism in Monasteraden.
  • An epic tale by the celebrated Soviet-era author Mikhail Sholokhov - And Quiet Flows the Don - is being shown on Russian TV for the first time," reports the BBC. GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
  • Kusama, 82, is known as the 'priestess of polka dots' and her career is being celebrated in a major retrospective at Tate Modern. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
  • Meet Sir Cecil Thistlethwaite, the celebrated theological statistician.
  • As it is not generally known that the "Agapemone" had a prototype in the celebrated _Family of Love_, some account of this "wicked sect" may not at this moment be without interest to your readers: -- Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • Every one has heard of Alexis Soyer, the celebrated chef de cuisine, ... [a] litterateur, as well as the greatest living master of the mageric art" (325). Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
  • He celebrated the larrikin streak in the Australian soul, the irreverence, the hedonism and physicality and of course the bloody-minded stoicism, obduracy and deviousness.
  • At a White House ceremony where he signed the $417 billion defense spending bill for the 2005 fiscal year, Bush uttered another of his celebrated malapropisms.
  • There are many species of the plant found in different parts of the world, and nearly a dozen kinds in the Himalaya Mountains themselves; but the one pointed out by Ossaroo was the _Aconitum ferox_ of botanists, the species from which the celebrated "bikh" poison of the The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
  • The name-giving ceremony is a formal occasion celebrated by feasting and drinking.
  • And a committee has just been set up to ensure that its quatercentenary in 2011 is celebrated with rejoicing, gusto and a host of national commemorations. Times, Sunday Times
  • So Newt Gingrich can campaign on family values while abandoning a succession of wives for more nubile alternatives; Bill Clinton's extra-mural activities have to be shoved under the carpet in a celebrated TV interview (with his wife loyally at his side) before he can resuscitate his endangered candidacy in 1992. Shashi Tharoor: Importance of appearing to be earnest
  • This book is an engaging, humane and personal account of a fascinating, courageous, anonymous and uncelebrated group of Soviet patriots who just happened to be women.
  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
  • The couple celebrated their golden wedding in January.
  • Jim Cotton was entered upon the roll-call of some celebrated "crammer" near the Crystal Acton's Feud A Public School Story
  • Local men and women have recorded memories of their vanished working lives in the cutlery and silver trades and today's silversmiths and jewellers from the region are celebrated too.
  • Buchanan's quatercentenary was celebrated at different centres in Scotland in 1906, and was the occasion of several encomia and studies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • The symbolic language of Saint Catherine's day, as celebrated by the Parisian midinettes (young dressmakers and milliners), had its origins in the festive calendar of rural France.
  • Mr Lowe has just celebrated six months of wedded bliss to his sweetheart Ellen.
  • There only remained the blacksmith's shop, and though the blacksmith was a Puritan and none of his people, Wilfred Bohun had heard some scandals about a beautiful and rather celebrated wife. The Father Brown Omnibus
  • In the ensuing days Miller was celebrated in the tony newspapers and magazines as a latter-day Shakespeare.
  • These displays soon became celebrated as exemplars of enlightened princely patronage and magnificence.
  • After decades of rejection as a symbol of outdated patriotism, the poilu (French slang for infantryman) has become a cultural icon in recent years, celebrated in films like "Joyeux Noel" (2005) and in books like "Lettres des Poilus," which has sold more than 300,000 copies since publication in 1998. Collectors Vie For World War I Memorabilia
  • Equally unforgettable, but less celebrated, is Billy Strayhorn. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Driving Miss Daisy and The Music of Billy Strayhorn
  • In 1997, the celebrated satirist tricked public figures including Rolf Harris, Noel Edmonds and David Amess MP into warning Britain's teenagers of the dangers of taking "cake", a new "made-up pyschoactive compound" also known as Basildon puke plates and loony toad quack. Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • [FN#196] Abou Abdallah ibn el Casim el Hashimi, surnamed Abou el Ainaa, a blind traditionist and man of letters of Bassora, in the ninth century, and one of the most celebrated wits of his day. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
  • Perugia's most celebrated painter, Pietro Vannucci, who was also known as Perugino, once had an even more famous pupil: the Renaissance master Raphael. NYT > Home Page
  • Along with the change in culture, came a change in values; no longer were the good of society and the upholding of integrity and honor of highest benefit; instead, the new era celebrated the individual, and the self-aggrandization of the self as the supreme good. Guarding America's Future Against the Heirs of Cromwell
  • His celebrated portrait of Charles William Lambton in scarlet velveteens was sometimes assumed to be an imaginary portrait of the dreaming, youthful Byron, the very soul of English romanticism, and was reproduced across Europe as such, and is still instantly recognisable today. Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review
  • Hunting celebrated the imperial virtues of courage and manliness and confirmed the power of colonial rule.
  • Some impressions from the Mass and procession on the feast of Corpus Christi celebrated by Pope Benedict in Rome: Corpus Christi 2009 in Rome
  • The magnitude of such events being celebrated at this venue by the district administration becomes high with the participation of numerous schools and colleges.
  • Agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, again flourished under the protection of the laws; and the curioe, or civil corporations, were again filled with useful and respectable members: the youth were no longer apprehensive of marriage; and married persons were no longer apprehensive of posterity: the public and private festivals were celebrated with customary pomp; and the frequent and secure intercourse of the provinces displayed the image of national prosperity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The team were crowned National league champions that year and recently celebrated the golden jubilee of that occasion at a dinner in Westport.
  • The celebrated monastery of Rila possesses a vast estate in the Rilska Planina; its abbot or _hegumen_ owns no spiritual superior but the exarch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • From the Holy Father's June 6, 2007, General Audience on St. Cyprian, "the first Bishop in Africa to obtain the crown of martyrdom", whose feast is celebrated today: Saints
  • Their marriage was celebrated with barbaric pomp and festivity, at his wooden palace beyond the Danube; and the monarch, oppressed with wine and sleep, retired at a late hour from the banquet to the nuptial bed.
  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
  • Christophe Ena/Associated Press Guingamp players celebrated their victory against Rennes after their French Cup final soccer match at the Stade de France in Saint Denis, outside Paris, May 9. The Wall of Fame
  • This year I felt our community demonstrated a strong sense of pride on Australia Day and celebrated the values of freedom and democracy, mateship and volunteerism.
  • Van Halen's Panama cranked from the clubhouse speakers and the stench of victory cigar smoke hung in the air as the Angels celebrated their American League Division Series upset victory against the favored Yankees three games to one. USATODAY.com - If Angels ignite, it's from Eckstein's spark
  • Last year the journal celebrated its tenth anniversary.
  • Etruscans in an art in which afterwards they attained to such marvellous perfection, and the only relics now remaining of the fictile statuary for which Veil was so celebrated. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
  • This mutual interpenetration, like the co-dependence of observation and revelation, lies at the heart of the tremendous flowering of shan-shui in the Northern and Southern Song, and those later periods in which it was so celebrated. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Two weeks ago he was again celebrated when the infamous Luas Bridge in Dundrum was named after the engineer but this time he was a Carlow man!
  • Solomon was celebrated for wisdom, but folly is write in legible characters upon his almost every action. On the Equality of the Sexes
  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
  • Auden, who cannot have read many advice columns, was publicly known as a communicant of the Episcopal Church, a return in his celebrated genius to the church of his English boyhood. Funny as a Crutch
  • It is ironic that what O'Casey was satirising in some of his later plays, the dancing colleens at the crossroads blessed by big bellied bishops, is what, in effect, is celebrated in that father of all cash cows Riverdance.
  • One of these is writer Miguel de Cervantes whose immortal work Don Quixote recently celebrated its 400th anniversary.
  • These new attacks came after a relative period of calm, a grim reminder that the country's celebrated security gains still remain fragile.
  • But this lack of censorship, self or otherwise, should be celebrated for the hard-won battle that it is.
  • A poinsettia is a living plant, and every instinct tells me that its continued existence must be nurtured, encouraged, celebrated. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • Victorian prudery did the rest, followed in quick succession by an unhealthy determination to class sexual congress as obscene and therefore not to be discussed, far less celebrated.
  • Nazis condenmed ’syphilization,’ celebrated barbarism, and wish to bring about the end of civilization. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Anti-Industrial Revolution
  • There was to be celebrated the high mass, that known as the dalmatic, like the one of the day before, about which the worthy correspondent wrote, only that now the officiating priest was to be Padre Salvi, and that the alcalde of the province, with many other Spaniards and persons of note, was to attend it in order to hear Padre Damaso, who enjoyed a great reputation in the province. The Social Cancer
  • Carnival, an important festival that precedes Lent, is celebrated with much festivity.

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