Example sentences for: celebratory

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

  • Far from being a celebratory collection of inspiring American images, Eyes of the Nation is--in stretches, at least--a lavishly illustrated bad trip through 500 years of heavy-handed nation building.

  • The papers mention that Clinton plans to address the nation tomorrow after the trial's conclusion and that he will be mindful not to repeat the celebratory mood of that post-impeachment South Lawn pep rally.

  • By 1980 it was also being used widely in baseball, especially to welcome a player to the plate after a home run (and in this respect is similar to the hugs and other celebratory gestures used by British football players).

  • 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 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."


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