christening

How To Use christening In A Sentence

• The christening was a great occasion, with a houseful of guests, and a great deal of speechmaking. The Great Hunger
• “I figured you and Vivian would have spent yesterday and today rechristening every room in the house,” she interrupts as she cuts the distance between us in half with a few agile steps on her snowshoes. Heaven’s Fury
• Merrifield has asked the public for help in rechristening the establishment. Beer: Dave Alexander on the end of the Brickskeller
• At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
• The large Christening cake was cut and divided up.
• My older cousins were also at the party with their kids which was a rare treat as we only see each other every few years, weddings, christenings, funerals.
• Then, as quick as thought (for dreams, thou knowest confine not themselves to the rules of the drama) ensued recoveries, lyings-in, christenings, the smiling boy, amply, even in her own opinion, rewarding the suffering mother. Clarissa Harlowe
• This was the beginning of a new era with the christening of the third ship to bear the name Perth.
• At a christening party all the favors savor of the nursery -- splendid cradles of flowers, a bassinet of brilliante trimmed with ribbons for a _bonbonniere_, powder-boxes, puffs, little socks filled with sugar instead of little feet, an infant's cloak standing on end Manners and Social Usages
• 'My dear young lady, it is well known that your christening was the work of your aunt, who did it unknown to your parents when she had you in her power, out of pure obstinacy to a church with which she was not in sympathy, taking you surreptitiously, and indefensibly, to the font of the Establishment; so that the rite meant and could mean nothing at all .... A Laodicean : a Story of To-day