Example sentences for: gala

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

  • (At last year's Time magazine anniversary gala, I found myself positively tongue-tied, embarrassingly adolescent in my awkwardness, on being introduced to Lauren Bacall.)

  • "Reliable Source" quotes Vernon Jordan's Gridiron Club gala comment about Hillary Clinton's Senate prospects: "I'm praying, of course, that Hillary will win.

  • 4. "GE CEO Jack Welch announced that he will retire after the company's annual meeting in April 2001, meaning that all eyes will be focused on his succession . Early suggestions for ways of whittling down the list of contenders include: two weeks of Navy SEAL training (if you ring the bell, you're out); a bake-off using GE's cool new photo-light oven; and a gala tourney of Win Ben Stein's Money ."

  • Even if you can’t be there for an opera (opening with a gala to end all galas every sacrosanct December 7), attend a concert or dance performance there or at least visit the little museum (left of the theater), if only for a chance to see a strand of Mozart’s hair, Toscanini’s baton, or a peak into the sumptuous Neoclassical auditorium with its six tiers of balconies and galleries.

  • Dan Burton, the chairman of the House committee investigating the scandal) toasted North at a gala in his honor.


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