Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "prize-giving".
This prize-giving takes place on the last--or thirty-first--day of this month.
First the prize-giving, then Tom, and now, on top of everything else, this infernal quarrel between Angela and young Glossop.
The sudden introduction of the topic had given me a bit of a jolt, it is true, for in the stress of recent happenings I had rather let that prize-giving business slide to the back of my mind.
But I'll tell you this much: the prospect of that prize-giving on the thirty-first of this month has been turning my existence into a nightmare.
The speech was on the subject of the doings of the school during the past term, and this part of a prize-giving is always apt rather to fail to grip the visiting stranger.
As regards his getting blotto and turning the prize-giving ceremonies at Market Snodsbury Grammar School into a sort of two-reel comic film, I will say nothing, for frankly I enjoyed it.
Thus the three horses and their two riders rode swiftly to the lists, and it was the blare of the trumpet sounded by the squire as his lord rode into the arena which had broken in upon the prize-giving and drawn away the attention and interest of the spectators.
Not only had Centaine Courtney-Malcomess provided the venue for the trials, but she was in addition the hostess for the prize-giving ceremony.
But we are going to clear the field just before the prize-giving, I thought I'd let you know.
So I hope we will meet later, at the prize-giving when I hand you the cup.