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eve

The day or night before, usually used for holidays. My parents always let me open one gift on Christmas Eve. My friend Stacy throws the best New Year's Eve parties. Evening, night. One the eve of our wedding anniversary, I give my wife a red rose.

eve

the day before he always arrives on the eve of her departure the period immediately before something on the eve of the French Revolution (= evening, even) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) he enjoyed the evening light across the lake

Eve

(Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

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Eva first woman Evie Christmas Eve

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Simple sentences

We always go to church on Christmas Eve.
Today is Christmas Eve.
It is Christmas Eve today.
Tom won't spend New Year's Eve with his family.
They married on Christmas Eve.
They went to church on Christmas Eve.
Some creationists believe that Adam and Eve had no navels, and that the trees in the Garden of Eden had no growth rings.
If Adam and Eve were the first and up to that point only people, who did beget their grandchildren?
The serpent tempted Eve.
Adam met Eve, his wife.
Tom didn't want to work overtime on Christmas Eve.
He didn't notice that Mary and Eve had come in.
I'm uploading pictures from New Year's Eve.
They got married on Christmas Eve.
Are you doing anything special for New Year's Eve?
I'm spending Christmas Eve with my family.
December 24th is Christmas Eve.
Peter and Eve make a handsome couple.
It's the serpent who tempted Eve.
Eve drinks only coffee.
What are you doing for New Year's Eve?
Have you decided where you're going to celebrate Christmas Eve?
Eve plucked fruit from the tree of knowledge.
On New Year's Eve, Putin thanked Russia's citizens for their willingness to stand for the country's interests.

Movie subtitles

All Hallow's Eve, Halloween, The Gay Super Bowl!
It was New Year's Eve.
On the eve of the flight, the last workers were let to go home.
The eve of a new year. New hopes and new dreams.
A faraway city in the North, on New Year's Eve.
Eve underwater.
The time is to be sharp midnight on New Year's Eve.
I'll be working New Year's Eve.
Miss Eve Trowbridge.
We know how it feels, don't we, Eve?
Eve, wait.
I feel just like New Year's Eve.
Yes, but, Tommy, today is Christmas Eve.
On the eve of a greater and more glorious war campaign.
On Christmas Eve 1847, after having resisted one of the most powerful countries on Earth for 15 years, the emir admitted defeat.
New Year's Eve at home.
You see, it's New Year's Eve, Aunt Katherine.
New Year's Eve and everything, see?
New Year's Eve, the place is jammed and you two are riding around.
But I strum my guitar 'neath thy window each eve.
You should get down on your knees and ask pardon. for a thought like that on Christmas Eve.
Saturday is New Year's Eve.
Miss Eve Trowbridge. - How do you do?
How sweet of them to think of giving us flowers on New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve's gone to her head and no mistake.
New Year's Eve ain't what it used to be.
Adam and Eve!

News and current affairs

These words were echoed on the eve of the introduction of the single currency.
In fact, if, on the eve of the 2009 European Parliament elections, the new Reform Treaty enters into force, each member country will be forced to clarify and justify its position.
The last thing the Fed Maestro needed was a repeat performance on the eve of the G-7 - a meeting that is supposed to exemplify international co-operation.
FRANKFURT - Critics of the US Federal Reserve are having a field day with embarrassing revelations of its risk assessments on the eve of the financial crisis.
While canvassing for votes in his hometown in southern Taiwan on the eve of the election, President Chen and Vice President Annette Lu were both wounded by an assassin's bullet.
Today, on the eve of the French presidential elections, opinion polls show that three-quarters of French voters believe that France should distance itself from the United States.
American politics, moreover, remains gridlocked over budgetary issues, and compromise will be even more difficult on the eve of the 2012 election, when Republicans hope that economic problems will help them unseat President Barack Obama.
Once again, some Christians say that we have all inherited the original sin committed by Eve, who defied God's decree against eating from the tree of knowledge.
For animals also suffer from floods, fires, and droughts, and, since they are not descended from Adam and Eve, they cannot have inherited original sin.
Indeed, a recent study by Nomura Securities finds that China's financial-risk profile today uncannily resembles those of Thailand, Japan, Spain, and the United States on the eve of their financial crises.
Mahathir became prime minister in 1981 when the region was on the eve of historic change, following the end of the Vietnam War and Indonesia's stabilization following the bloody civil strife of the 1960's.
They seized computers and files, disabling the animal-rights movement as it was on the eve of launching a new initiative to enshrine the protection of animals in the Austrian constitution.
His son's ascension, unlike that of Bashar on the eve of his father's death, is anything but settled.
And Moscow is not on the eve of revolution as Cairo was less than a year ago.
The perception that Obama can transform the view that the US and the West have of themselves is an important factor in the emotional gap that may exist between Asia and Europe on the eve of America's presidential election.
This New Year's Eve, Sweden made history in a small way by ending the last rotating foreign and security policy presidency of the European Union.
The current tension between China and (mostly) Western public opinion on the eve of the Beijing Olympics is the result of incompetence, hypocrisy, and legitimate but potentially counterproductive indignation.
It was New Year's Eve 2003, during a concert at the newly opened House of Music in Moscow.
Other interesting developments on the eve of the election include a fierce public debate over whether to vote or to boycott the presidential race.
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the last man to have embodied a real hope for peace, is a third intifada erupting?
Bombs went off in the INEC office in Suleja, near the federal capital, on the eve of the polling, killing several election officials.
On the eve of America's civil war, Abraham Lincoln said that his country could not long endure if it remained a society half-free and half-slave.
Winston Churchill's famous denunciation of the delaying tactics of the British and French on the eve of World War II should be a warning to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
When I was a boy, Christmas arrived on its eve, December 24.
Were it not for the shooting incident on the election's eve, the opposition might have eked out a victory, with the soft economy the deciding factor.
China's Taiwan Affairs Office issued a warning on the eve of President Chen Shui-bian's inauguration in May, forcing Taipei to choose between war and peace.
To him, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is another Hitler, and the world is now facing the same challenges that it faced on the eve of Hitler's rise to power.