Example sentences for: feast

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

  • (One alleged origin of "ghost stories": Several breeds of bacteria, especially wood fungi, which feast on corpses, are luminous in the dark.)

  • May: Assisi: Calendimaggio Christian and pagan festival; Naples: Miracle of San Gennaro (liquefaction of the saint’s blood); Camogli (Riviera): Fish Festival, communal fish-fry in giant pan; Gubbio: wooden candle race, crossbow competition; Orvieto: Pentecost feast of the Palombella (Holy Ghost)

  • Barcelos: Feast of the Crosses music concerts and a spectacular display of fireworks on the Cávado River; first weekend.

  • Only with the arrival of German immigrants after the Civil War did it emerge as the major American feast.

  • Titian’s Pietà, a vibrant last work completed by pupil Palma il Giovane, was originally intended for his tomb in the Frari church (see page 131); Veronese’s Feast in the House of Levi was meant to be the Last Supper, until the Holy Inquisition complained about its “buffoons, drunkards, dwarfs, Germans, and similar vulgarities”; Tintoretto gives full play to his dark sense of drama in the Miracle of St. Mark.


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