How To Use Marquee In A Sentence

So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
A league lacking sparkle on the field now had marquee names in the dugouts. Times, Sunday Times
A huge white marquee was erected at the back of the hotel for the reception. The Sun
His funeral was held in a marquee in the garden. The Sun
Hector grabbed my hand and made a dash for the entrance, the lights from the marquee illuminating his jubilant face.

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The frontage was our Southsea museum, the yards around the back housed our wintering circus troupe, and inside the dining hall the art department had erected a fairground marquee for interior cover. Archive 2007-08-01
The quick fix the fans always want is a marquee signing. The Sun
Managed by Seamus Cox from Aghamore, the band travelled the length and breath of the country playing to packed halls and marquees.
If two-thirds of the movie marquees carry an American title in Europe (even in France), the fraction is even greater when it comes to translated books.
As guests walked from the church to a marquee behind the house, a football freestyler showed off his ball skills. Times, Sunday Times
The last festival depended on selling exhibition space in large marquees as well as satellite exhibition space to cover the cost of the festival, which is intended to be self-financing.
Tents and marquees have traditionally been used in the grounds of hotels and country clubs for special functions such as receptions and parties.
We're planning to hold the wedding reception in a marquee in the garden.
The marquee was lit like a Roman candle, even in daylight.
It was a large tent, as big as a parish marquee, and though both its wide entrances had been brailed back there was no wind to stir the damp air trapped under the high ridge. Sharpe's Tiger
The rise of salary caps, luxury taxes and the like in professional sports has forced even comparatively wealthy franchises to lure marquee players with different kinds of incentives.
This crescent is significant to Islam and is borne on the state flags and official marquees of Muslim countries from Algeria to Indonesia. Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
The costs skyrocketed because the players gained so much leverage and then when the marquee players faded, no one was able to fill the void.
We're planning to hold the wedding reception in a marquee in the garden.
Bolt became an even bigger favorite to defend his title in Daegu, South Korea, this weekend when fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell withdrew from the marquee event with a groin injury. SFGate: Top News Stories
Other bands competing are Bedlam, local funksters Khaki Marquee and the all-female trio Proem - a surprise addition to this year's final in that the band plays emotive and eerie music, a world away from that of the other bands.
If it works well and in the summer we make the right marquee signings, we could be very competitive. The Sun
I was no longer the marquee signing. Times, Sunday Times
There was a marquee in the garden. Times, Sunday Times
Over a traditional Gujarati thali in a marquee on the lawn, we learnt how Maharana Vikramsinhji had seen off developers to preserve his estate as one of the few green lungs in the state of Gujarat.
He is our marquee player. Times, Sunday Times
In recent weeks a series of grandstands and marquee tents have been assembled on the airfield, and signs have been going up awaiting the thousands of visitors who will descend on the event.
Despite being about $45 million over the limit, the club won't lose any marquee players.
As well as music and dancing, there was also an arts and crafts marquee offering a mixture of displays and practical demonstrations.
The team have invested too much in this season to trade their marquee player.
Digital marquees above the doors displayed the contents of each room, and the levels of security required to access them.
The highly organised fraternities — student social clubs — even bring their own marquees emblazoned with the starspangled banner. The Sun
At such a rarefied rating level, the Masters would outdraw everything in TV sports except the NFL, some Olympic action and a few marquee college football bowl games. Notah Begay brings unique Tiger Woods perspective to Golf Channel
There will be an events marquee with crafts and games for children, displays and information throughout the day.
By then, after eight and more hours of conversation with the people around them, there is nothing left to say as they inch closer to the white marquee that marks the entrance to Westminster Hall.
It is being utilised as a marquee this week and when completed next month will serve as a multi-purpose room for entertainment functions.
The city last week adopted a law requiring hotel operators who advertise rates on marquees to post both the highest and lowest room rates.
Why is it that marquee players from European countries are eager to represent their country while getting Canadian players is often an onerous chore?
The talent contest had taken place in a marquee.
Situated in Leicester Square, in the shell of the collapsed superclub Home, the new Marquee couldn't appear more different from the original.
I follow a gaggle of fashionably grungy Italian kids into a marquee.
The Dance Club, the larger of the two, will feature an Art-deco motif, a theater-style entrance marquee.
The marquee was set fairly close to the river, and a breeze flowed welcomingly along with the stream. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
Whatever grand claims spin-doctors make of their fabled and bewitching powers, they can no more teach a dunce to run the Department for Education than make a marquee the most exciting destination of the new millennium.
The NBA's marquee matchup , once again on Christmas Day, will be the Kobe versus Shaq show.
Fall is highbrow time at the multiplexes, and this year even more than most the marquees are full of Oscar-bait adaptations of literary bestsellers from the past few years. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
There were sack races, a tea in the marquee with cakes, buns and sandwiches for 200, and a lad who won the prize for his branch-covered fancy dress of Boots.
They've had a rough go of it over the record-smashing Stuyvesant Town-Cooper Village acquisition, but "Speyer" arguably remains the marquee surname in New York commercial real estate, with 15 million top-shelf square feet in midtown alone, including Rockefeller Center and the land lease on the Chrysler Building. Home | The New York Observer
Spurs have been accused of not making any marquee signings during the transfer window. The Sun
The twenty - seventh is my birthday, I plan to put up a marquee and throw a party.
But with Wimbledon upon us, we are all but guaranteed a couple of marquee names in the latter stages of the competition. Times, Sunday Times
Two hours before the first show in York, the crowd was queuing beneath the theatre marquee that read ‘Bingo every night (except Thursday)’.
Beyond the marquee were swingboats, bouncy castle, a ferris wheel, fatsuits for sumo-wrestling, and a candy-floss and popcorn van.
Later, they will be entertained by The Chieftains and a troop of Irish dancers who will perform in a massive marquee which has been erected on the castle lawns.
They erected a marquee to accommodate 500 wedding guests.
The marquee piece: a three-foot tall late 19th century bronze of a steeplechaser by Isidore-Jules Bonheur. Post-Lehman, It's the Parts, Not the Sum
Webster's contextual readings of Shahn's pictures of people interacting with the film stills and posters of stars ornamenting movie theater marquees and street-level advertising are especially rewarding.
An off-white agricultural marquee, like some wayward beached iceberg, covered an all-weather work area.
We're planning to hold the wedding reception in a marquee in the garden.
I never had bridezilla fantasies of white meringue dresses and marquees. Times, Sunday Times
In addition to the experienced teams involved in rapidly erecting and dismantling marquees and tents, the company is also now organising lighting facilities and generator capacity.
The changes should allow the clubs to retain their home-grown players and also to compete for marquee international signings. Times, Sunday Times
All day the crowds had gathered, families and groups of friends picking their spots on the hill in front of the great marquee which housed the stage, or under its protecting canvas.
Early fears of waterlogging and flooding in various of the venue's marquees proved unfounded.
He records the theater marquee as it changes through one final calendar of concerts, ending with a somber marquee bearing only black bunting and the American flag as a sign of mourning.
The Rolling Stones played their debut concert at the Marquee club in London in 1962.
The marquee was lit like a Roman candle, even in daylight.
Organisers are planning to have lots of stalls and attractions - and are desperate for donations of tents and marquees to provide shelter for these.
One entered the show next to a mock-up of a theater marquee and exited through a stage door that was part of a new, postscript installation made for the exhibition.
Over each the plane swooped low, so that the photographer might make pictures of the garlanded streets, the bannered steeples, the white marquees and tents in the opens fields, prepared for Jubilee teas. Writer With a Cause
The Queen has paid for 33 clematis plants which will form the central path up to the marquee at her garden party on August 8 this year.
As we had, by the process known in the army as "wangling," acquired sufficient tents and marquees for With Our Army in Palestine
And they followed the game on a giant plasma screen in a marquee. The Sun
The wedding will take place under a large white marquee to protect against aerial photographs. Times, Sunday Times
We've hired a marquee at vast expense.
Certain marquee guys affect the play and effort of the rest of their defense. Thomas Alter: The Bears Aren't Who We Thought They Were
Another attraction at the Royal Show, also competing for rosettes and prize cards are over thirty pure breeds of poultry, exhibiting in the Poultry Marquee on the first three days of the show and followed by a poultry display on the fourth.
Universal's effort to reboot one of its marquee franchises takes center stage this weekend as The Bourne Legacy opens five years after the previous installment.
Over each the plane swooped low, so that the photographer might make pictures of the garlanded streets, the bannered steeples, the white marquees and tents in the opens fields, prepared for Jubilee teas. Writer With a Cause
But the Concert Hall isn't a success, as witnessed by these marquees.
There is a large marquee and, in front, small tables are scattered like confetti. Times, Sunday Times
We've hired a marquee at vast expense.
The tension builds up slowly but surely as the family arrive, the marquee is erected, the food is prepared, the flowers are arranged, the gifts are given all as the flashbacks gradually fill in more and more detail. Facing the Light on the eve of World Book Day
Through the use of daylight and a tensioned Lycra material that is digitally patterned and custom-tailored for the space, a 10 by 10 off-the-shelf marquee is transformed into a space that the press describes as an “avant-garde environment not of this earth”. Moët & Chandon Marquee by PTW Architects
Bourne Legacy is a key test for Universal as it reboots the marquee spy franchise without Matt Damon.
And they followed the game on a giant plasma screen in a marquee. The Sun
Frustration in marquee events is familiar to Stewart, who endured an agonizing decade of near-misses in Indy cars and stock cars at Indianapolis Motor Speedway before finally conquering the track in the '05 Allstate 400. Harvick denies Martin with dramatic victory at the Daytona 500
Along with Ronaldo, he was Brazil's marquee player - both on the field and in the Nike universe.
It helps profile and sponsorship, as does the acquisition of marquee overseas players. Times, Sunday Times
The Lusty Lady, the famous peepshow club on 1rst with the endlessly entertaining marquee, is closing. Outspoken and Undocumented « PubliCola
The dinner will be held in a marquee in Friary Gardens, Richmond, with guests dressed in Victorian costume.
The men donned spangly tights, glitter catsuits and bouffant wigs to get the party started and the marquee was packed to bursting point for the whole evening.
Although both are proven winners, the sponsors will be looking to a few marquee players within striking distance to guarantee a better return on the money they have invested in this event.
Zac Posen went onto co-host the night's most starry after party in Marquee with him.
The studio chiefs wanted a marquee name in the lead role, not some unknown.
There's a coffee shop serving homemade truffles and a garden with a marquee for summer frivolity. Times, Sunday Times
In the garden stood a marquee where he had evidently been welcomed home the previous night. Times, Sunday Times
Maritime crafts will be demonstrated in a marquee featuring stalls of wood carving, rope craft and the secrets of ship bottling.
Breakfast sausages flavoured with the peppery natives kawakawa and horopito are the latest wild food treats the Northland Regional Council is hoping will lure visitors to its marquee at the upcoming Dargaville field days. NZ On Screen
Then she noticed the movie marquee with its poster of a beautiful dark-haired woman stranded in the South Pacific embraced by a beautiful blond-haired young man.
The event will take place in a specially erected marquee.
Together with curving wraparound short sides, this feature appears in 1930s designs from sideboards to movie theater marquees.
Next week at the renowned Cheltenham cricket festival a celebration brunch will be held in a marquee. Times, Sunday Times
He is the marquee player, he is the captain and he has been here all his life. Times, Sunday Times
A marquee has been erected there for a commercial celebration.
There was a Cornstalk who came to a marquee in which certain of us were sitting one rainy afternoon.
The home and garden marquee did not just have floral displays but also a little Wivenhoe in a tent as the town took the limelight as the community on display.
We're planning to hold the wedding reception in a marquee in the garden.
As the ceremony unfolded, grief-stricken relatives clung to each other for support inside a specially erected marquee.
The wedding reception was held in a marquee.
On the main marquee of these Games, they have been overshadowed by other individuals. Memories of 2004 paved way for U.S. basketball gold rush
Judging of rally entrants takes place in the afternoon before a social evening of entertainment in the marquee from 7.30 pm.
He would pay for all advertising and promotion, put his own banners and marquees out front, and turn the theater into a midway attraction, complete with lobby curiosities designed to lure customers.
I've agreed to bring in a marquee signing. The Sun
Uncle Sam arrives in good time: The marquee is up, Uncle Sam's arrived, and the cake is iced.
The villagers put up a decorated marquee to celebrate the Spring festival.
But I need to know how many chairs we need for the marquee on launching day. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
A party ensued, with marquees blasting out music and a market area selling drugs and festival paraphernalia such as glow sticks.
Saturday will also feature two large marquees with an array of exhibitors, and a third marquee holding a talent contest.
The marquee now lies in darkness, no thumping bass, or any noise at all to speak of.
Pitched under the shade of some wide-spreading mangoes are a variety of tents of all sizes, from the handsome and spacious marquee to the snug sleeping tent; near them are picqueted a number of fine-looking Arab horses in prime condition, while the large barouche, which is standing close by, might have just emerged from a coach-house in a London mews; a few servants are loitering about, and give life to this otherwise tranquil scene. A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home
Shouts, boos, whistles from the crowd sheltering in the marquees.
The studio chiefs wanted a marquee name in the lead role, not some unknown.
The great marquee of the chief was particularly distinguished with this kind of emblematical emblazonment -- being literally covered with signs and figures, like the patterns upon a carpet. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
They are all out getting tanked in the marquee, as most members opposite were until a few minutes ago.
The changes should allow the clubs to retain their home-grown players and also to compete for marquee international signings. Times, Sunday Times
A perfect day had begun with a wedding reception in a marquee at the family home, but had ended with the most appalling and macabre tragedy.
A poll to determine the degree of "positive marquee value" among Hollywood featured players ranked Bogart eighteenth.
The league had hoped that marquee players would give instant credibility to the fledgling league.
When you then add on the two marquee players plus other assorted clauses, some will have a player budget of about 10 million. Times, Sunday Times
But when they closed the proceedings by singing Nkosi Sikelele i'Afrika, many white supporters, armed with essential songsheets, appeared to resign themselves to mouthing the words as a prerecording of the anthem filled the marquee. ANC Daily News Briefing
Wright's tenacity and solid game plan provided him with the win over his marquee opponent and the young goofy-footer will need to employ the same tact as he continues here at Bells Beach. Transworld Surf
It might as well be a marquee of drag performers.
The white tents and marquees that had been the centre of the rally stood in the field half collapsed.
You'll have to hurry, the men will be coming today to put up the marquee.
And that gives you a chance to pick up a bunch of starters on a team that believes it can win devoid of any marquee talent outside of V.Y. The Titans did not have much of a supporting cast last year, and Young almost got them to the playoffs. Forget sleepers and look at the situations
J'avoue une préférence marquée pour les conversations linéaires plutôt que hierarchiques en arbre. Against Threaded Conversations on Blogs — Climb to the Stars
Summoned by casting assistant Vincent Conniff, these fetching unknowns with marquee-friendly names — Teddie Blue, Dona Dax, Iris Gaye, Maren Marlin — were outfitted in felt cowboy hats, belted bolero jackets, leather-studded cuffs, short suedette skirts, and black boots. It Happened One Night ... at MGM
Decorative touches such as vintage movie posters, a mini marquee, director's chairs, and overhead lanterns or strings of lights create the right mood.
Billy puts about a million dollars worth of party things, including the biggest possible marquee, on tick.
Owners might be concerned about lost revenues if the preseason were shortened, but losing a marquee player certainly doesn't help the league put its best product on the field.
But things hotted up with the onset of dusk, as strobe lighting and fire-eaters added atmosphere to the cavernous marquee that served as a dance floor.
With something for young and old alike, the fair had a large fairground, market trade auto and jumble, an entertainment pavilion and a real ale tent, along with rural craft marquees and a food hall.
Bollywood might hope that a different spelling on the marquee would alter an actress' fortunes, but would it matter whether a woman was Priti, Preeti, Preety or even Preity as long as she was pretty?
Neon was a revelation, those gay lights in windows and over movie marquees.
Other than that, you didn't have a truly marquee player on the field.
Why he didn't bring all this heat the day the Mitchell Report came out, putting his name in ignominy's marquee lights, is a true mystery. With reputation at stake, Clemens in tough save situation
It was a marquee affair and would be a humanist ceremony.
Later, the teams and guests adjourned to the specially erected marquee for a meal, refreshments and an enjoyable social evening.
The Eurozone marquee will also provide shelter for racegoers should the weather take a turn for the worse.
A social gathering and refreshments in a marquee erected on the church's grounds will follow the ceremony.
Those who had secured the shelter offered by the solitary marquee and who, notwithstanding the irrespirable and filthy atmosphere, considered possible suffocation and the danger of fire to be preferable to the drenching rain, were confronted with a new and far more terrifying menace. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben
The arts and crafts exhibition was held in the village hall, while refreshments were served in a marquee on the village green.
If the team looks for a tackle, he will not be a marquee player.
Facilities on site for both events are to include a concert restaurant, licensed bar, pre-booked mini-marquees, tables and chairs and a concert shop.
Bolt became an even larger favorite to defend his title in Daegu this weekend when fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell withdrew from the marquee event with a groin injury. The Seattle Times
You may find new ways into an old story by preaching from some of the extras rather than the marquee players. Christianity Today
The only trace of Tom and Tim were their names on the marquee... which gave a whole new meaning to the term "false advertising. David Macaray: Movie Stars Shouldn't Do Animal Voices
The talent contest had taken place in a marquee.
Mind you we still have some epic nights here as we have a beer garden which has a marquee for all weather events.
Ultimately, it was World War II and the maturing of those youngsters raised on Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Superman that brought sci-fi out of the darkness and into the light of flashing marquees.
Their pictures will be scanned, they'll be interviewed and all of that will be projected onto the exhibition in the marquee.
Transparent red, orange, yellow, green and blue chiffon wafted around the flower-decked marquee for the day as well, tucked under denim dungarees or over a black bra as a shirt.
When it comes to rewarding his marquee players, he has proven to be a reliably soft touch.
They embrace three angular lanterns that pull light into the heart of the building and, at night, seem to float above it like illuminated marquees.
The studio chiefs wanted a marquee name in the lead role, not some unknown.
But those marquee players deplete the budget even more.
Some members of the families wept as a military honour guard carried the coffins of the five into a specially erected marquee.
Participants bring picnics to the marquee on the Green to enjoy a great social occasion and take part in a conversation with three leading authors.
We're planning to hold the wedding reception in a marquee in the garden.
Equally, the decision to erect a marquee in the car park to cater for some corporate functions has been questioned by events organisers.
‘It's very rare one of the marquee players' names gets mentioned, especially a young kid,’ Brown says.
But, with a month to go and many of the temporary stands, pavilions and marquees needed to accommodate the 60,000 visitors a day still to be erected, is he at all nervous?
Why do people still travel to New York to write musicals despite the comparatively few new author names on Broadway marquees?
The roof of the marquee was a lavish purple with matching carpets. The Sun
But Bynum's name hogged the marquee on a night the Pistons couldn't afford to lose. NBA.com: Fantasy News
I know every corner of downtown so well that I see the buildings that once occupied the parking lots, the fine old department stores, the marquees and awnings of the nightclubs and hash houses and chow mein joints.
AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marmalade - màrmalâde marmite marquee Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
The ceremony was noteworthy for the vigorous mutual backslapping, and the empty seats in the large marquee shading mostly pollies, VIPs, public servants and some Aboriginal functionaries.
In the marquee, the jolly Admiral rubbed his hands and said to the guests: `What say we splice the mainbrace while we wait? SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Attractions include working crafts and conservation marquees, an art exhibition, falconry and archery displays as well as a demonstration of carriage driving.
The wedding reception was held in a marquee.
Even in the semi-formal surroundings of the Team GB press marquee there is a waspish chemistry between the pair, and an air of almost marital delicacy when the subject is broached of Grainger's recent outings with alternative partners during Watkins' recent injury break. Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins ready to put chemistry to the test
Many staff came prepared for a lengthy stay in the rain, setting up a marquee tent and bringing with them barbecues, umbrellas and plenty of food.
Along the sidewalks, giant signs and marquees hung from the buildings.
All marquee names, but not exactly oozing street cred. Times, Sunday Times
This even extends to some of the marquee stars, as Mary Jane looks particularly bland with flattened features.
New this year in the Poultry Marquee is a children's area where they can draw, paint or crayon their favourite birds in the show.
There is a large marquee and, in front, small tables are scattered like confetti. Times, Sunday Times
On Sunday there is a function in the marquee and the admission fee is €20.
At the top of the marquee, Hugh himself experienced a smidgen of unease. JUST BETWEEN US
Yet the luncheon marquee was alive with well-wishers, some of whom had flown from overseas for the occasion. Times, Sunday Times
Phillips's Park Avenue saleroom was packed with marquee collectors like Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad , Chicago collector Stefan Edlis , London jeweler Laurence Graff and fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger, who paid $1.4 million for Damien Hirst 's butterfly mosaic, "Disintegration—The Crown of Life," over its $1.2 million low estimate. Phillips de Pury Sells Cy Twombly for $9 Million
TUCHMAN (voice-over): This principal believes he these words he put on the word marquee: "The price of greatness is responsibility. CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2009
Some festivals in the UK choose to put marquees up in order to seat 1,000 plus.
Theater marquees are frequently shown in the background, and it's always worth reading what's written on them.
Putting up marquees and tents and other types of shading is something many people find complicated if not impossible.
A giant marquee was erected next to the lake and a dance floor constructed at the water's edge.
Wallaby James O'Connor was also seen dancing intimately with Australian netballer Erin Bell in the Swisse marquee. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
The list of marquee players filling key special teams spots across the country is impressive.

How To Use Marquee In A Sentence

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