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Christmas

Christmas is a Christian holiday to celebrate the birth of Christ, usually on Dec. 25. Santa put lots of presents under the Christmas tree. I've got a week's holiday around Christmas time.

Christmas

period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland

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Simple sentences

Merry Christmas!
Sally gave him a Christmas present.
What did Tom give you for Christmas?
Tom got a hamster for Christmas.
Tom and Mary opened their Christmas presents.
My brother got more Christmas presents than me.
My sister got more Christmas presents than me.
When do the Christmas holidays begin?
Tom didn't want to wear the shirt that his mother had gotten him for Christmas.
Christmas is just three days away.
Christmas falls on Monday this year.
I heard some people singing Christmas carols.
How many Christmas cards did you get last year?
Have a good Christmas.
School has closed for the Christmas holidays.
We all pigged out at the company Christmas party, especially on the roast beef.
I did some shopping for Christmas on my way home.
I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
We should start getting Christmas gifts for the children.
It was on a Christmas when it snowed heavily.
Christmas fell on Saturday that year.
This is a Christmas present from him.
Let's put up the Christmas tree here.
Everyone hoped for a snow flurry for Christmas.
Tom broke his right leg and was taken to hospital a few weeks before Christmas.
How many days are there before Christmas?
Christmas is a special holiday.
Christmas comes a few days before New Year.

Movie subtitles

By Christmas?
Christmas lights!
Do not think for one second that she's going to Mary Hart's SweetHart show tomorrow because we only have two tickets and I already planned to give the free Crock-Pot to my mom for Christmas!
A Christmas wonderland.
You're dreaming of a white Christmas?
Evan was on the Christmas float less than 90 minutes ago.
I love Christmas so much.
What do you call it when you find a dead Father Christmas inside your house?
Speigleman to ban Christmas!
Christmas is a retail conspiracy!
But then, Evan loved being Father Christmas, I suppose.
They light a fire to make things Christmas cosy.
Christmas cheer maybe.
He's that alone guy on Christmas day.
On Christmas Eve 1847, after having resisted one of the most powerful countries on Earth for 15 years, the emir admitted defeat.
I'll wait until my Christmas bonus, then I'm quitting!
Oh, I forgot to wish you fellas a merry Christmas.
Santa Claus bring it for Christmas?
Christmas present from Santa Claus.
And just to show you we're not mad at you, we brought you a Christmas present.
Christmas present, in the middle of July?
Oh yes, you see we always do our Christmas shopping early.
No. You see it's a surprise. And it musn't be opened til Christmas.
Do not open, until Christmas.
A merry Christmas to you.
I got one for Christmas.
But we were planning on being married right after Christmas.
I'll be home before Christmas.
I have a reoccurrence of stage 3 metastatic breast cancer, so what are the odds I'll be here. By Christmas?
Ta-da! Christmas lights!
WOMAN: Mine's like a Christmas tree.
Merry Christmas, Miss Powers.
Merry Christmas to you.
Aren't you going out for Christmas dinner?
You haven't been to see Anne since Christmas.
I saw her Christmas Day.
Christmas 1917.
My wife gave me one for Christmas.
Yes, but, Tommy, today is Christmas Eve.
I've been Christmas shopping.

News and current affairs

Instead of feeling the pinch of wartime privations, like in any ordinary country, American consumers are binging as if it were Christmas all year round.
Shortly before Christmas, Czech TV's director, who was resisting political pressure, was replaced by Jiri Hodac, a man with close ties to ODS.
But Germany also swamped world's markets with mass consumption goods: cheaper musical instruments than the traditional makers in France or Italy could produce, and lithographic prints used for Christmas cards and seaside postcards.
Think about it: Christmas is the main Catholic holiday, but we put more emphasis on the miraculous Resurrection of Christ at Easter.
In his pre-Christmas speech to the Roman Curia, the pope did not mention rape, let alone the sexual murder in Delhi.
When Russia marks the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union this Christmas, it will have much to celebrate.
Together with the Christmas tree, Sankt Niklaus, as the Germans called the benefactor, became a central figure in German Christmas habits.
For centuries Romanian farmers have bred a few pigs each year, out of which the biggest are slaughtered just before Christmas, on St. Ignatius' Day.
The proximity of Christmas will provide the ritual with a religious patina.
Overseas owners were less than understanding of the German custom of paying a thirteenth monthly salary at Christmas.
That Ukrainians will vote for their freedom this Christmas season is a coincidence of true perfection.
It is not clear yet whether the nationalist youth rebellion has been suppressed, and whether Muscovites will be able to use the subway without fear during Russia's New Year and Orthodox Christmas holidays.
Berlin - Just before Christmas, Serbia's government formally submitted its application for European Union membership.
PRINCETON - This Christmas, like every Christmas, thousands of pilgrims and tourists will travel to the Middle East to celebrate the holiday in the land of the Bible.
The attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day by a young Nigerian man trained by Al Qaeda in Yemen appeared to open the West's eyes to the country's problems.
For him, the attempted Christmas Day bombing was a gift from heaven.
PRAGUE - On Christmas Day last year, one of China's best-known human rights activists, the writer and university professor Liu Xiaobo, was condemned to 11 years in prison.
Even in the most Godless households, most children in Western societies probably know the details of the Christmas story.
We learn about all this at the same time as we are told about Father Christmas, his Lapland reindeers, and his sacks full of presents.
That is the most important message for everyone, atheists included, to take from the Christian story of Christmas.
It is said to be an excellent chronicle of the court's day-to-day goings-on, revealing, for example, that the emperor celebrated Christmas as a boy, that he had nose surgery in his youth, and how often he met with whom.
LONDON - Christmas is coming - and has been, it seems, since mid-autumn.
Since when were we happy for Christmas to dawn in early November?
When I was a boy, Christmas arrived on its eve, December 24.
The day after Christmas was a public holiday with cold turkey and ham to sustain us.
Christmas was over, until December 24 the following year.
Of course, there was always a commercial side to Christmas, if only for breeders of poultry and makers of greeting cards.
It is reported that one Tokyo department store marked the time of year for shoppers by hanging a huge crucified Father Christmas in its entrance hall.

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