gala opening
Example Sentences
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But if you do attend a gala opening, don’t forget to take it off before you hit the red carpet, or a festival sheriff will “suggest” that you do.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023
Those attending Thursday night’s gala opening similarly had to offer a negative test result in the last 24 hours.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Above its door are carved in stone the names of the first three dramatists staged there during the gala opening week in 1899: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Ludvig Holberg and Ibsen.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2019
Even by the lowered standards of a gala opening, though, this “Samson” was dim and inert.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018
Everywhere she saw well-to-do and prominent persons who had turned out for the gala opening.
From Whispering Walls by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
