Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "summer holidays".
We would of course be glad to have Harry stay for the remainder of the summer holidays, and to see him safely onto the train back to school.
Though it was Tuesday, a supposed working day and the annual summer holidays over, the long white beach was crowded.
During the summer holidays I had once built a castle here with my cousins.
He had known Percy for four years, had stayed in his house during the summer holidays, shared a tent with him during the Quidditch World Cup, had even been awarded full marks by him in the second task of the Triwizard Tournament last year, yet now, Percy thought him unbalanced and possibly violent.
Frau Mayer, whom we met in the summer holidays two years ago, had married under such conditions.
For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of year.
We would of course be glad to have Harry to stay for the remainder of the summer holidays, and to see him safely onto the train back to school.
One thing that's happened is that Big Jack Donovan has spoken to Mr McDonald, the District Forestry Officer at the Forestry Commission, and since I've been thirteen he's taken me on work experience for three days a week during the summer holidays and taught me their side of things.
Seaside summer holidays at Lyme Regis when old Father Francis Morgan came down from Birmingham to join them, embarrassing the children with his loud and boisterous ways just as he had embarrassed Ronald and Hilary at Lyme twenty-five years before.