How to Use Bastille Day in a Sentence

Bastille Day

noun

• On Bastille Day, Quentin’s unit took flight over the German lines.
  — Fiona Donovan, Vanity Fair, 30 Dec. 2025
• Here are a few ideas for planning your Bastille Day celebration at home.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 9 July 2020
• The wine bar is hosting a Bastille Day Wine Class starting at 1 pm.
  — Anna Spiegel, Axios, 12 July 2024
• This year’s Bastille Day celebrations aren’t just about France.
  — ABC News, 14 July 2026
• As the dust settles on this Bastille Day blowout, the market has left the gates wide open for option sellers.
  — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 15 July 2026
• That was one degree hotter than the old record for Bastille Day in Washington.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• The first aerial sorties went up at midnight on Bastille Day, July 14.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
• Russia’s war in Ukraine – central to last year’s Bastille Day celebrations – echoed in this year’s events as well.
  — Angela Charlton and Youcef Bounab, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
• The game just happens to fall on Bastille Day, as France is aiming to reach its third straight World Cup final.
  — David Hickey, NBC news, 14 July 2026
• The novel was released on Bastille Day and is already flying off shelves as the book to read before going to Europe.
  — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
• The timbre of the suffrage story changed on July 14, Bastille Day, after a month of the charade.
  — Alli Hartley-Kong, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020
• Fittingly, the uprising was planned for July 14, Bastille Day.
  — Marc M. Arkin, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2022
• Happy Bastille Day, which is the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille in 1789.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2021
• The Bastille Day holiday is central to the French calendar and national identity.
  — Eva Van Dam, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
• Save the real experimentation for Bastille Day or Groundhog Day when nobody will be looking.
  — al, 13 Apr. 2022
• The French government has banned firework sales ahead of Bastille Day celebrations as the country still reels from widespread anti-police riots.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 9 July 2023
• But that won’t stop the tower, nor the organizers of the Bastille Day celebration, who are asking for donations to complete more repairs and restoration.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
• The Bastille Day parade featured about 500 troops from the ″coalition of the willing″ group of countries that have pledged to help with Ukraine’s postwar security.
  — Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
• The attack at the church also happened less than a half a mile from the site in 2016 where another attacker plowed a truck into a Bastille Day crowd, killing dozens.
  — David Aaro, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2020
• On Sunday, France celebrates Bastille Day, a national holiday.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2024
• Trump told Kelly about having wounded combat veterans in the Bastille Day military parade, according to the excerpt.
  — Derek Saul, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• Florczak, the mayor of Jouy-le-Moutier, said the increasing frequency of heat waves would mean that Bastille Day fireworks would likely no longer be a fixture in his city.
  — Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• However, some events are ticketed, so be sure to check the complete schedule and activity locations on the L’Alliance Bastille Day website.
  — Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Almost nine years after their awkward handshake at the 2017 Bastille Day military parade, the two men politely shook hands and expressed their affinity for each other.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 15 June 2026
• The rally will be on Bastille Day, which recognizes the storming of the French political prison, the Bastille, and the start of the French Revolution.
  — Rachel Royster july 13, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2026
• Admission to the evening Bastille Day concert in Central Park is free, subject to capacity, but early arrival is strongly recommended.
  — Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Unexpectedly, the announcement came on Bastille Day, France's national holiday.
  — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 14 July 2026
• Bastille Day also coincides with the annual Tour de France cycling race, which adjusted the timing of Tuesday’s stage to ensure that the finish line arrivals wouldn’t compete for viewers with the parade.
  — Eva Van Dam, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
• Instead of capping raucous Bastille Day celebrations in France with a trip to the World Cup final, Deschamps and his squad will travel to Miami to play in the third-place game.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
• Roussel greeted constituents at a rock concert, joined a crowd gathered to watch the fireworks, dropped in on a house party and finally, the following morning, marched in a Bastille Day parade in the neighboring town Fresnes-sur-Escaut.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024