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.)

  • 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.

  • For some reason, even hostesses who themselves try to eat nutritiously feel that dinner party fare requires a feast, where everything on the plate is essentially a butter sculpture.

  • The pundits feast on Hillary Clinton's revealing interview in Tina Brown's forthcoming magazine, Talk .

  • Before the hunt, the Micmac staged a huge “eat-all” feast to clear out all available provisions, confident the larder would be amply replenished.


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