cocktail party

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Recent Examples on the Web Cruises often have a variety of social events, from cocktail parties to trivia nights, designed to bring people together. David Nikel, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 When dressing up for more formal occasions like a cocktail party or elegant night out, aim for more dramatic choices with a stiletto, angled, or demure kitten heel of any boot length. Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2024 But instead of a formal cocktail party, the guys are doing a casual cookout at the mansion. EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024 Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party. Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cocktail party 
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Noun
  • The next year, a more decorous tea party occurred in Edenton, North Carolina, when Mrs. Penelope Barker convened 51 women to support the colony's resistance to British taxation.
    Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2011
  • Fast forward past the whole tea party thing that helped launch America’s revolution and eventually, loose leaf tea gave way to bags.
    Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • According to his 2006 memoir Searching for the Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead, Lesh met Dead frontman Jerry Garcia in 1959 at a Bay Area house party.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The pair met in 1959 at a Bay Area house party and again after a 1964 Warlocks gig.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • With life milestones also coming thick and fast outside of birthdays, the sentiment of overspending then gets carried through to hen parties and weddings, then eventually baby showers and kids’ parties.
    Alicia Lansom, refinery29.com, 22 May 2024
  • Today, the Czechia capital is a hot-spot for tourists, a destination for stag and hen parties.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Tom Parker Bowles, son of Queen Camilla and both the stepson and godson of King Charles, is spilling the tea on what’s been simmering in palace kitchens for generations.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Frau Hermann sipped her tea with a sudden faraway look.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Of course not, but the captain has told the wheelhouse to turn the supper tanker.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Serve enchiladas for a hearty Halloween supper to balance out all of the candy that will be consumed later in the evening.
    Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • General admission tickets include entrance at 1 p.m., souvenir glass, 20 samples of beer, festival area access. VIP admission includes entrance at noon, souvenir glass, 20 samples of beer, meet and greet with brewers, catered food, access to the beer garden, and priority seating for concerts.
    Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 11 Sep. 2024
  • While Overpeck was working security following Brown’s concert on July 20, the singer and his entourage began to brutally and severely beat four fans who were attending a VIP meet and greet, according to Overpeck’s lawsuit.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 July 2024
Noun
  • The gift will also support cutting-edge clinical trials and immunotherapy treatments, along with a fellowship program that encourages collaboration among scientists through an annual symposium.
    Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Content by this author: Continuity and Change in African Cultures A symposium of anthropological essays on a variety of cultural, economic and social topics.
    Melville J. Herskovits, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Beside him was a petite, resourceful redhead who handles Matt’s socials for him.
    Heshel Rolnick, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Kava Club, Virginia's only Kava and non-alcoholic bar, has community pop-ups and weekly socials at various locations.
    Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024

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“Cocktail party.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cocktail%20party. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.

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