Example Sentences

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He was holidaying in the Mediterranean seaside city with his grandparents, Collette and Ray Kerry, girlfriend Molly and other relatives.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2024

Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professor Hamish Spencer was holidaying in Colombia when an amateur ornithologist John Murillo pointed out a wild Green Honeycreeper with distinct half green, or female, and half blue, male, plumage.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2023

Her deputy Oleksiy Symonenko resigned in January 2023 after media reports he was holidaying in Spain during wartime.

From Reuters • Sep. 19, 2023

Brits had retired from all rugby and was holidaying on the Spanish island of Ibiza last year - kicking back and sipping cocktails, he said - when the cellphone rang.

From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2019

At any rate, he was holidaying on the lake that summer.

From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.