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"Xmas" in a Sentence (25 examples)
Some Christians object to calling Christmas Xmas because Christ is left out.
It is the 22nd of March of 2015. Jeffrey and Francis from Jehovah's Witnesses have visited my door. They remind me of the last supper and death of JC on Nisan 14 on the Hebrew lunar calendar. Nisan 14 is the Memorial of JC every year. They invite me to their ceremony. Last week, Leo, Arnan, and I discuss that rabbits and eggs are pagan. Xmas is pagan, too.
In the cloudy, yet sunny, afternoon was my third walk of the day, here on Lulu Island. I was at Yummy Slice pizzeria to drink a grey-can Diet Coke. I exercised with my hand grip strengthener at my table. Sachet the Gujarati and Navjot the Punjabi were the vendors. There were throngs of parents with their Eurasian kids, eating or ordering pizza. I visited Kin's Farm Market. The radio was playing Xmas songs. Leo, the Cantonese vendor who speaks also Mandarin, exclaimed, "Viktor, bā bái!" The fragrance of baked Japanese sweet potato, "yaki-imo" in Japanese, "rostita batato" in Esperanto, was tempting. There was a metallic rectangular oven with heated stones inside. The colourful fruits enthralled me. The durian was still so dear! Today is the 9th of December of 2024.
In ye Xmas and Whitsuntide Vacations, ye Scholars study at a rate of an hour and a Quarter each day & all yt go home have proportionable Tasks set them...
A thousand thanks, merry Xmasses & happy New Years to you for yʳ delightful letter: […]
On Xmas Day I breakfasted with Davy, with the intention of dining with you...
[…]but if you won't come here before Xmas, I very much fear we shall not meet here at all[…]
My dear Wilkie,—we will arrange our Xmas No., please God, under the shade of the Oak Trees.
I should be very glad if you could help me in fixing on a name for my fairy-tale, which Mr. Tenniel (in consequence of your kind introduction) is now illustrating for me, and which I hope to get published before Xmas.
A Xmas card is a pleasant memento of a season of good will and kindly sentiment. It is a reminiscence of Xmas time. With Xmas we associate happy gatherings of friends, wintry skies without and cheerful hearths within, ice and snow to be kept in subjugation by warmth of disposition and genial affection. The Xmas cards ought to embody such traits, physical and mental.
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They used to keep merry Xmasses with us in the old days when Xmas was merry, and now they come back and we share our Christmas dainties with them against our will.
[…]as well as give the Imperial spree a notice next to reading matter in the Xmas issue[…]
I was greatly pleased at receiving yours, and those of your sisters, and I did not think them at all too late; for as several of the Church Festivals have their ‘Octave’ so the chief mysteries of the Faith carry a glory around their heads that sends their light in a wide circle, like the halo round the head of a pictured Saint; and so I send my ‘Many Happy Xmasses’ and ‘Many Happy New Years’ to you and yours.
Don't let us spoil the Xmas holidays by a chore as colossal as it is disagreeable, and as disagreeable as it is unnecessary.
We’re off to Gstaad today until the sth of Jan. We have chartered a large plane, I’m not quite sure what it is but it seats about 16 and is a turbo-jet. The reason is that we have so many people coming with us: Sarah, Michael, Chris, Liza, Maria, Caroline, John Something-or-other who is Simmy’s boy friend from Hawaii, and our two bad selves. Otherwise it’s going to be one of those quiet, pipe-smoking, slippered, log-fired Xmasses with a well-loved and well-remembered volume of Dickens.
N:Castle (Xmassing and wanted at play)
I wᵈ not have you think yᵗ we have no Xmassing here; we have had as large a round of dinners at Pau as we could have at Welsbourn (tho perhaps (to me) not quite so pleasant).
Barking, Saturday, Nov. 29. / Dear and Respected Master, / Excusez ma “franchise,” but “Essence of Parliament” is this week represented by ˣ⁄ₓ, and that’s the reason Y. So no more at present from Your fond and faithful Toby. / “Confound his algebraical impudence!” exclaimed Mr. Punch. “He’s beginning Xmassing already. When he returns, I shall make Master Toby sit up.”
Charles Snelling and wife, of Belleview, Xmased with father and mother Snelling, of Rock Spring.
We have Xmassed and are still doing so. We had an awful Xmas dinner that took hours, the whole staff dining together, which as we saw each other all day and every day was most funereal as no one could think of anything to say to each other.
Barrett Gilbert, the Gotham storager, has gifted us with a refiller for the desk pad he Xmased us with a yr ago, with gold edges.
Ruthie Shapiro, record promoting for Eileen Rodgers, Columbia recording’ artist, Xmased deejays with playing cards backed with Eileen’s photo, cute gimmick, also her famous green writing ball point pens.
Alfreda Ferrell and her three children Xmased in Chica.
On a balmy afternoon an American couple (hardware store in Ohio) were strolling down a street in Kathmandu. She, in a trendy strolling suit. He, in bermuda short and an aloha shirt. (They had Xmased in Hawaii.)
Text messages are noted for their abbreviations, though in fact many of those that are used are already standard abbreviations in written English. The difference is that they are sometimes used in text messages in slightly different – and sometimes very creative – contexts. Here are some examples: / I’ll send it this pm. (= afternoon) / Put yer ft. up. (= feet) / So, you’ll be Xmassing in France?? (= ‘spending Christmas in France’)
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