Example sentences for: festive

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

  • Indeed, the word festive comes from the word feast which derives from the Latin festa which was a feastal ceremony.

  • Earlier in the day, he had predicted a Russian victory in two months, but after a festive luncheon held in his honor by Israeli President Ezer Weizman, he halved the estimate.

  • The inventiveness of such word-users may also be uncontrolled, a feature of which little account has been taken in analyzing Caribbean language use, the display of diction practised by elderly men on such festive occasions as christenings and weddings, especially the latter.

  • West on the Via Porta Rossa is the 14th-century Palazzo Davanzati; its stern, fortress-like exterior still provides rings at ground level for tethering horses and on upper stories to hold torches and lanterns for festive occasions.

  • They are more like '90s answers to the calender girls and pinups of the mid-century, suggestive more than titillating, festive more than funky.


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