FESTIVITY in a Sentence

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1. You are ignorant of the art of festivals.
2. It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared.
3. A host of musicians will perform at the festival.
4. The performance made her the toast of the festival.
5. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love.

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 Meanings and Examples of FESTIVITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
festivity
 n.  celebration; an experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety
 n.  experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety; festival or similar celebration
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  Everything was very good; we did not spare the wine; and he exerted himself so brilliantly to make the thing pass off well, that there was no pause in our festivity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
2  On the day when I was articled, no festivity took place, beyond my having sandwiches and sherry into the office for the clerks, and going alone to the theatre at night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
3  As he looked at it, he observed that there were flags in some of the principal streets, and other signs of festivity.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4  The site chosen for the village festivity was one of the lawnlike oases which were occasionally, yet not often, met with on the plateaux of the heath district.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
5  During the days of his prosperity, not a festivity took place without himself and wife being among the spectators.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
6  But in nothing in the house was the holiday so noticeable as in Marya Dmitrievna's broad, stern face, which on that day wore an invariable look of solemn festivity.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII
7  You are ignorant of the art of festivals.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
8  Certain unhealthy festivals disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
9  Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HA...
10  Several of these festivals were held, and quite a little sum of money was raised.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
11  The most of this money was obtained by holding festivals and concerts, and from small individual donations.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX.
12  That two executions of considerable interest will take place the day after to-morrow at two o'clock, as is customary at Rome at the commencement of all great festivals.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
13  It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
14  It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
15  A young girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in the wind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  The accusation of elitism seems unfair as the festival presents a wide range of music, with something to please everyone.
17  A new Czechoslovak film has had its premiere at the Karlovy Vary film festival.
18  A host of musicians will perform at the festival.
19  The performance made her the toast of the festival.
20  Harvest festival was the occasion for the collective expression of a community's religious values.
21  A series of events for teachers and students will culminate in a Shakespeare festival next year.
22  The proceeds of today's festival will go to several local charities.
23  Six theatre companies have been selected to take part in this year's festival.
24  One of the major themes of this year's festival is Africa's tortured relationship with the west, with several films making a strong case that Africa continues to be exploited.
25  At its peak, a million people cram onto the streets over the two-day festival.
26  At its peak, a million people crammed onto the streets over the two-day festival.
27  From Nov.21 to Nov.30, University Student Original Drama Competition, a new cultural festival, was held in some universities and colleges in Beijing.
28  This is a video of a Gaucho riding an untamed horse at the national folklore festival in Jesus Maria, Argentina.
29  This year, following the fall of one of the festival's most high-profile regulars, Harvey Weinstein, the event's ingrained sexism was scrutinised and criticised more intently than ever.
30  The New Year festivities in Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city, are traditionally colorful and boisterous — but not this year.