8 sentences with 'celebrate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word celebrate and other words derived from it.
• « Renaissance humanists sought to celebrate the beauty of the human body in their art, of the human mind and human achievement in their scholarship, and of human society in the elegance of its architectural design. »
• « Michelangelo's David, completed in 1504 (it took three years to complete). The statue was intended to celebrate an ideal of male beauty, inspired by the example of Greek sculpture and the work of an earlier Renaissance artist, Donatello. »
• « This was to instil nationalist pride in a specific group of military recruits, not to celebrate a 'true' Scottish tradition. »
• « After the First World War, almost every government in Europe, including Germany, was a republican democracy based on the rule of law (liberalism). Even the socialists had reason to celebrate: there was a nominally Marxist state in Russia and socialist parties were powerful and militant throughout Europe. »
• « To celebrate my brother's retirement from police work, my sister-in-law decided to surprise him with a big party. »
• « He looked at all the people who had gathered to celebrate at the surprise party without his knowledge, shook his head and said, "Now I understand why I never got promoted to investigator in my job. »
• « -There are cops everywhere," Olsen pointed out as he arrived. // "It must be a get-together to celebrate something," Roberts said. »
• « It is said, for example, that during a bullfight held in the Plaza Mayor in Madrid to celebrate the birthday of King Philip IV, one of the participants in the spectacle, the Count of Villamediana - a conspicuous and declared lover of the Queen - had the good fortune and skill to lunge a bull with extreme courage and brilliance, which made the Queen exclaim: "How well the Count stings! »