Example sentences for: christmas

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

  • And for that devout motorcycle thug on your Christmas list, there's a black T-shirt with a skull and crossbones captioned "2 nd death" on the front and, on the back, a spiky, harsh drawing of the Crucifixion, captioned "It's hell without Jesus."

  • He is, as Stephen Nissenbaum puts it in his excellent The Battle for Christmas , an "invented tradition."

  • This custom is not particular to the Chicano community, and nativity scenes can be found throughout the country during the Christmas season.

  • Lorin Brown reports that in northern New Mexico the children went out on Christmas Eve, but in Canutillo, Texas, around the 1920s, it was the custom for children to go door to door on Christmas Day, although they didn’t recite the above chant.

  • Details of the natural world are bleached out, but artificial colors--such as the pink and green footballs the soldiers pack with explosives and lob from their speeding vehicle for sport--leap out of the screen like radioactive Christmas baubles.


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