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Example sentences for: festive

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In addition to the festive mass arrests, the Chinese plan a parade of 140,000 people along with troops, tanks, rockets, and 90 floats, including one bearing 30 leading fashion models.
Colleagues, family, and friends often join in, turning what could be (and, at the New York Times , apparently is) a grim ritual into a festive and sentimental occasion.
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.
The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade--and isn't a holiday so much more festive when it has a sponsor?
In the good old days, when folks retired after 30 years in the same office, it was usually a moderately festive occasion.