Sentences with 'festival'

Example sentences and phrases with the word festival and other words derived from it.

« The games were a combination of religious festival and competition in which the aristocrats of each city competed in various sports, including javelin, discus, foot races and a brutal form of unarmed combat called pankration. »
« The Olympics had already been closed by Emperor Theodosius I in 393 CE (he objected to their status as a pagan religious festival, not an athletic competition). »
« The Spaniards then murdered hundreds of high-ranking Mexica during a festival to celebrate Huitzilopochtli, the god of war. »

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