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Example sentences for: feast
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(One alleged origin of "ghost stories": Several breeds of bacteria, especially wood fungi, which feast on corpses, are luminous in the dark.)
In addition to a splendid feast, the host would hand out gifts of oil, carvings, jewels, prized iron tools, and, above all, the coveted Hudson’s Bay Company blanket, sometimes as many as 10,000 of them.
When Jacques Cartier got to the island, his sailors made a feast of the hazelnuts, for which coudres is an old French word.
In Dancing at Lughnasa (it's pronounced LOO-nassa), the sisters reside in a sterile and repressive Ireland--but one in which the pagan past continues to bubble up, most visibly in the harvest feast of Lughnasa, when peasants take to the hills to build fires, drink to even greater excess than usual, and dance orgiastically.
Indeed, the word festive comes from the word feast which derives from the Latin festa which was a feastal ceremony.
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