holidays
Example Sentences
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The disruption comes during the school holidays, one of the busiest periods for the airport.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Worse were Hong’s attempts to confront her apparent antipathy toward holidays including Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Fourth of July and even Halloween that appeared on her unscrubbed X account.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
The key short-term counter measure he announced was to temporarily lift a ban on truck transports on Sundays and public holidays to help ease cargo bottlenecks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
By the end, and by her own hand, she was reduced to being a joyless hater of holidays and avowed enemy of All Things Fun.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
But down on the farm on our holidays one summer—the summer of 1938 it was—Mutti and Papi, Uncle Manfred and Aunt Lotti, got into a long and heated argument.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
