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Example sentences for "garden party"

  • It was the custom of this most amiable prelate to give a garden party once a year, to which came most of the adult population of St. Marys.

  • The lips were puffed out, the head bent back and he was splashing desperately.

  • Two stories, the bottom one of stone so that the Indians couldn't set fire to it.

  • I'd merely say that we four are coming up--that's all.

  • But in Canada there were only the distant mines of Nova Scotia.

  • On the following day there were to be athletic sports for the sailors and a garden party by the Mayor and Mayoress for the officers of the fleets and distinguished visitors.

  • On December 21st the Prince witnessed a tent-pegging exhibition by the 10th Bengal Cavalry, made a round of the hospitals and asylums, and wound up with a garden party at Belvidere and a dinner and grand ball at Government House.

  • There had even been a rumour that Lady Laura had gone off with a lover from the Duke of Omnium's garden party, and some indiscreet tongue had hinted that a certain unmarried Under-Secretary of State was missing at the same time.

  • It was to be such a garden party as had never been seen before.

  • For, though of all parties a garden party is the nicest, everybody is always anxious to get out of the garden as quick as may be.

  • Men who dance are always an asset, and the more the better; but a strange young girl hung around the neck of the hostess is about as welcome as a fog at a garden party.

  • And I sez to Miss Meechim, "How would the Mudd-Weakdews receive the carpenter's Son if he should stop at their gate some afternoon while they wuz givin' a garden party to nobility.

  • Illustration: We wuz all invited to a garden party, gin by Mr. and Miss Curzon.

  • Grandpapa is going to let us have a garden party; there are tickets to be sold, for we are going to raise money to send poor children out into the country.

  • She had made up her mind that, cost what it might, she would see Mr. Wells in the flesh; and she had achieved her end at a garden party.

  • What about the ambassador's garden party?

  • No, dearest: it would be quite proper--say on a canal barge; but it would not be proper for her at a garden party.

  • Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party.

  • A garden party, by all means, said Miss Dulcibella, and she gave the young ladies to understand that the whole thing was her doing.

  • Miss Pew had taken it into her head that Mauleverer Manor ought to be better known, and that a garden party would be a good advertisement.

  • He also interested himself in the sanitary improvement of the burgh, and entertained the members of the Sanitary Congress, which met at Rothesay in 1898, at a garden party at Mountstuart.

  • It was the day of Mrs. Burton Jones' garden party, the Bainbridge event for which Miss Davis was, presumably, staying over.

  • A garden party in Bainbridge is not exciting, in itself.

  • One could see the grass grow at a garden party, if so many people were not trampling on it.

  • Today, at Mrs. Burton-Jones' garden party, the acquired restraints of character seemed wearing thin.

  • We were also in time to welcome our friends at a garden party at Osterley, and to entertain some of them from Saturdays to Mondays in July.

  • I rather think that it was at a garden party.

  • The girls are coming to my garden party to-morrow, and as my mother also expects guests, I'm sure she'd be glad if you would come.

  • Oh, poor Maria’s not worth a ball--nor even a garden party.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "garden party" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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