Example sentences for: nativity

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

  • Then they all freeze perfectly still for, like, a minute, as the music swells and we are presented with a shockingly good recreation of a kitsch Nativity painting.

  • The creation of yard displays, as shrines or ofrendas (offerings), or nacimientos (nativity scenes) during Christmas, is an important way to commemorate many holidays such as Halloween, Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), Cinco de Mayo (Fifth of May), and even the Fourth of July.

  • Sure, it's easy to decry the commercialization of the holiday, like putting trousers on all the figures in the nativity scene, adding a big electric sign that flashes: "Jesus Wore Khakis," and pocketing some pretty sweet change from the Gap.

  • A lovely eighth-century Birth of Buddha is curiously reminiscent of Christian nativity scenes.

  • A religious medieval nativity folk play.


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