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Vacations in sentence

68 examples of Vacations in a sentence

A long-distance relative offers to teach her ninth- and tenth-grade curricula during summer vacations.
We go to meetings in the present tense; we go on family vacations in the present tense; we go to the polls and vote in the present tense.
This includes everything from the air conditioners I so desperately wanted during my summer vacations, to the refrigeration systems that keep our food safe and cold for us in our supermarkets, to the industrial scale systems that keep our data centers operational.
So, while I always understood the value of cooling during my summer vacations, I actually wound up working on this problem because of an intellectual puzzle that I came across about six years ago.
Because when they give you a reward card, what you're doing is telling a company who you are, where you live, how much you earn, what you buy, what you eat, how many kids you have, when you go on vacations, when you get sick.
When I went on school field trips, family vacations, or simply on my way home from extracurricular classes, I wandered around wooded areas and gathered tree branches with the tools that I sneaked inside my school bag.
It creates a reality of money, property, government, marriage, CERN conferences, cocktail parties and summer vacations, and all of those are creations of consciousness.
If the only thing that money determined was access to yachts or fancy vacations or BMWs, then inequality wouldn't matter very much.
And when my friends went and spent their summer vacations on the Jersey Shore, I did not.
Summer vacations often consisted of my father trying to heal me, so I drank deer's milk, I had hot cups on my back, I was dunked in the Dead Sea, and I remember the water burning my eyes and thinking, "It's working!
CA: So, given that this vacation led to the creation of the world's biggest private foundation, it's pretty expensive as vacations go.
This has earned me the nickname "The Poo Princess" in my family, and it's ruined many family vacations, because this is not normal.
I earned my reputation as destroyer of family vacations for always insisting on being dropped off at the fanciest megachurch in town.
They don't need coffee breaks, they don't need vacations, they don't need to go to sleep at night, they don't ask for raises either.
If you're a mom trying to manage a budget, and oil was 150 dollars a barrel last summer, and it's somewhere between 50 and 70, do you plan vacations?
I have that sense that when we go on vacations this is very frequently the case; that is, we go on vacations, to a very large extent, in the service of our remembering self.
And when I think about that, I think about a vacation we had in Antarctica a few years ago, which was clearly the best vacation I've ever had, and I think of it relatively often, relative to how much I think of other vacations.
Why do we pick the vacations we do is a problem that confronts us with a choice between the two selves.
It all took place in the Catskills in the sixties where many Jewish families vacationed in the area during their summer vacations.
Angela is a typical nerd who doesn't have friends outside of the cyberspace,almost doesn't take vacations and go out, and stays almost all the time connected.
Hitchcock's remake of his 1934 film concerns about the known story of McKenna marriage(James Stewart, Doris Day, in the first version Leslie Banks, Edna Best) along with their 11-years-old son travelling through Morocco during vacations.
The family cries poverty while adding nearly a million in improvements to the home and taking expensive vacations.
A bunch of tourists end up on a small island off the coast of Greece and encounter a being who is a crazed cannibal, and of course that's enough to ruin most folk's vacations.
I cannot believe the Cayman people allowed this movie to be made and degrade this beautiful island where tourist goes to with their families for vacations.
Two couples(Dennis Quaid and Andie MacDowell, Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette)have been friends for a dozen years--sharing summer vacations, talking about their children and gourmet food.
All the Dinners, the countless hours of video tapes, all those vacations we spent on the Vineyard.
As poor students, my buddy and I thought it would be a fun way to make extra money being extras in movies during vacations, and it kinda was.
So, lower participation in the labor force explains half of the difference, and longer vacations for those who do work accounts for the other half.
The importance of vacation time should come as no surprise to anyone who has experienced Europe's deserted cities in August, the three-week vacation "bridges" in April and May in France and Italy, the "rush hours" that take place every Friday at 2 PM in German cities, and crowded ski slopes in February due to winter school vacations.
As a European working in the US, I admit that I do take many more vacations than my American colleagues.
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