Example sentences for: celebratory

How can you use “celebratory” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At the very least, if the host can't manage such a party, guests should be informed beforehand that the celebratory dinner is the gustatory equivalent of BYOB.

  • Its boudoir is an entire forest, symbolizing Nature itself, where mortals and fairies, regals and bumpkins, make love and war, where passion becomes arbitrary and paramours interchangeable; and its last act is a riotously bungled tragedy-within-a-comedy (a celebratory performance by a troupe of "rude mechanicals") that's an ironic comment on the trivial pursuits that have preceded it.

  • In a trough, a man may develop an emotional attachment to "aspirational media," which traffic in celebratory stories and photographs of highly powerful men and the symbols of their success, such as the corporate titles they have acquired and shed, the venture capital they haven't spent yet, and the wives they have married and divorced.

  • In order to "sustain a celebratory tone," write the curators, "representations of certain sexual practices or fantasies (those judged by common consensus pathological) were ruled inappropriate for our overarching agenda."

  • Later that month, two Saudi jihadists arrested by Bahraini authorities during the threat spike told their captors that their al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan had held celebratory parties over the Cole attack.


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