BIRTHDAY in a Sentence

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For BIRTHDAY, below is one of 99 sentences:
Seryozha understood at once that what the hall porter was speaking of was a present from Countess Lidia Ivanovna for his birthday.

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 Meanings and Examples of BIRTHDAY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
birthday
 n.  the date on which a person was born
 n.  anniversary of the day on which a person was born
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  Come now and then; come on your birthday.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV
2  The interview lasted but a few minutes, and she gave me a guinea when I was going, and told me to come again on my next birthday.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII
3  He'll be eighty-two next birthday.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXII
4  But we had looked forward to my one-and-twentieth birthday, with a crowd of speculations and anticipations, for we had both considered that my guardian could hardly help saying something definite on that occasion.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVI
5  I had taken care to have it well understood in Little Britain when my birthday was.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVI
6  It was an uncomfortable consideration on a twenty-first birthday, that coming of age at all seemed hardly worth while in such a guarded and suspicious world as he made of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVI
7  Not another word had I heard to enlighten me on the subject of my expectations, and my twenty-third birthday was a week gone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
8  I PASS over all that happened at school, until the anniversary of my birthday came round in March.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
9  It is even difficult for me to believe that there was a gap of full two months between my return to Salem House and the arrival of that birthday.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
10  He considered that it might be done in one thousand six hundred and forty-nine years, counting from the Doctor's last, or sixty-second, birthday.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
11  It happened to be the Doctor's birthday, too.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
12  It is Sophy's birthday; and, on our road, Traddles discourses to me of the good fortune he has enjoyed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. A LAST RETROSPECT
13  Seryozha understood at once that what the hall porter was speaking of was a present from Countess Lidia Ivanovna for his birthday.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 26
14  God has brought joy indeed to our boy on his birthday.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 30
15  He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
16  Happy birthday with all my love.
17  Wish you a whole world of happiness now that your birthday is here.
18  A little birthday wish just to let know how much I care about you.
19  Send this special birthday wish just to let you know that you'll always be remembered for the thoughtfulness you show.
20  A gift of love for your birthday,which is a warm wish from my heart.
21  May your birthday be a celebration of the life.
22  There was a really noisy table behind us celebrating someone's birthday.
23  May you keep in good health and good spirit both on your birthday and all through the year.
24  A little bird told me that today is your birthday.
25  I noticed she didn't send me a card - I think it was tit for tat because I forgot her birthday last year.
26  I reveived a belated birthday card this morning.
27  We sent a card with birthday greetings.
28  It's Steve's birthday on Thursday - I must send him a card.
29  She sends me a card on my birthday.
30  I completely forgot that it was his birthday yesterday.