Example Sentences
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And I grew up in a large extended family, eating kamayan feasts together with our hands.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
Libyans have been enjoying Ramadan with feasts and fireworks -- but soaring prices, a devalued currency and political divisions have left many with little to celebrate.
From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026
The bigger cities like New York and Philadelphia boasted theaters, but for most American families across the 13 newly independent states, public entertainment options generally were limited to dances, feasts and local traveling fairs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
November is another feast of feasts, with All Saints' on the first of the month and Armistice on the 11th offering relief from autumn blues.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025
In particular, a tribal big-man’s role in dividing the meat of pigs slaughtered for feasts points to the role of chiefs in collecting and redistributing food and goods—now reconstrued as tribute—in chiefdoms.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
