Example sentences for: festival

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

  • January: Avoriaz (Savoie), science-fiction film festival; Champagne and Burgundy, village processions for wine-growers’ patron Saint Vincent

  • In early August the resorts on the lakeshore sponsor the dramatic Torii Matsuri festival, when a great wooden arch is set alight and a thousand burning lanterns are sent floating out across the water.

  • Camel racing is a big event at Jaisalmer in February and also in the autumn festival at Pushkar (see page 209).

  • His early days in office were marked by embarrassingly thorough diktats aimed at purging French of Anglicisms and frothy tirades against the Deauville festival of American film.

  • The 1951 Festival of Britain (organized by the grandfather of the Labor minister now in charge of the Millennium Dome) still represented a culturally homogenous, industrial country.


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