What is "celebratory"

Usage examples of "celebratory".

For a moment he clings to the idea that the intruders have gone, or that his celebratory Chinese takeaway supper caused him to hallucinate, but he knows that this is wishful thinking.

I left him to find his own consciousness and strode off into the night, the endorphins running around my veins in a celebratory lap of honour.

As the light left the sky the merrymakers and revelers moved on to the celebratory dining, an event in and of itself.

An entire private library of ancient manuscripts became fuel for a celebratory bonfire.

You shall have to drink your celebratory libations straight from the bottle like the barbarian that you are.

Bethe Corbair as well, his own celebratory mood not extending to either of his companions.

The jihadi crew, its captain, and their mercenaries had joined the relieved and excited refugees, offering celebratory drinks.

HIS RETURN to Salusa Secundus, Vor transmitted no celebratory messages.

Some of them broke into a little celebratory dance that caused magic to sparkle in their wake.

When the Government held its celebratory lunch for the fiftieth wedding anniversary of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, I needed special dispensation to slip away in order to be on time for the 2.

After the farewells were said, John Guinery and I returned to the restaurant above The Albert in Victoria Street for a celebratory dinner, just as we had done eight years previously.

The crew watched the first triumphant French ships cruise through the waterway, firing celebratory cannons and waving colorful banners.

Shigemitsu, the former diplomat, wrote a celebratory poem to the effect that, because his lord was a god, he was untouchable by the enemy.

Early the following day, on his fifty-first birthday, Emperor Hirohito released two celebratory poems.

I expect there will be some sort of celebratory dinner party or something of that sort.