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summer holidays
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brooding on this severe prospect, MacDonald and his colleagues departed for their summer holidays.
▪ Christmas came in the summer holidays and was celebrated with a simple feast and decorations of flowers or branches.
▪ Imagine - with Air Miles you don't have to wait for your annual summer holidays to come around.
▪ Lakes and Mountain holidays are very different to run of the mill summer holidays.
▪ Of course he continued to take his family to Wyvis Hall regularly for their summer holidays.
▪ One night during the summer holidays Mr Gordon wanted a book.
▪ Others have spent long summer holidays there.
▪ Victoria and Alex occasionally returned to Aunt Rose at Aberknowe for summer holidays.

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.