guest of honor
Example Sentences
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And they had to wait over an hour for the guest of honor to arrive.
He accepted and made a short speech at the event, praising the guest of honor.
The guest of honor could not be persuaded.
From Los Angeles Times
The cake, it seemed, was upstaging the guest of honor.
From Los Angeles Times
At a dinner on Fifth Avenue where Churchill was the guest of honor, Mitchell, trying to maintain his usual bonhomie, stood up and offered a toast: “To my fellow former millionaires.”
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