Advent calendar
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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If you’re like me and forget to purchase your Advent calendar in time before the beginning of December, fret not!
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025
She has also picked up a bag of Playmobil characters for a few pounds to replicate the firm’s more costly Advent calendar for Maeve.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024
“They’d have a fresh one up every day, like an Advent calendar for politics. So out in the streets, you could see and feel the election coming. Nobody else had a ground game like that.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2023
Specifically, Lidl is recalling Favorina-brand Advent calendar boxes, which contain 8 ounces of cream-filled chocolates.
From Washington Times • Dec. 7, 2022
As the day approached, with fewer and fewer windows to open on the Advent calendar, my sisters and I were unruly with excitement, but the grownups seemed too busy to care.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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