How to Use thanksgiving in a Sentence

thanksgiving

noun

• They sang a hymn of thanksgiving.
• The Good News: God deserves your thanksgiving for all He's done for you.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 30 Sep. 2022
• For the last six Thanksgivings, Devon has helped a local group give food baskets to the needy.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi and Eric Lipton, New York Times, 20 May 2017
• Deer meat was likely the centerpiece of the first thanksgiving.
  — Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
• The Good News: Doing good for others should be a natural part of our thanksgiving for God.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 30 Sep. 2022
• The amounts of food cooked and served, and sheer number of mouths to feed at each Sunday production rivaled those at most of my friends’ Thanksgivings.
  — Paulinemercedes, Longreads, 16 June 2017
• The Abbey announced there would also be a service of thanksgiving in Hawking's honor later in the year.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 20 Mar. 2018
• Friday highlights include a Pride thanksgiving service and a street dance with a DJ.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2022
• As a gesture of their own thanksgiving, the two teenagers decided to clean up and used a Volkswagen microbus to haul the Brocks’ leftover trash to the local dump.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2018
• Lots of people love having crescent rolls at their Thanksgiving table, whether made from scratch of from a Pillsbury tube.
  — Matt Blum, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2008
• Last Thanksgiving against the Colts, Antonio Brown scored three touchdowns.
  — Clifton Brown, Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2017
• This meeting, held in 1623, was the colony’s first declared thanksgiving but there’s no record of anyone stuffing a turkey—this day was devoted to prayer.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2018
• That forced the queen to attend the service of thanksgiving at St. Paul's Cathedral without him, giving the nation an early glimpse of what her royal life would look as a widow.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2022
• Sukkot is a joyful time of thanksgiving and praise that ends with a celebration known as Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2021
• Go with a traditional prayer of thanksgiving for a familiar choice or go for something more unique.
  — Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 7 June 2023
• That will include the military parade to mark the queen’s birthday, a service of thanksgiving and a live concert at Buckingham Palace.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
• Cathedral for a Jubilee thanksgiving service, he was booed.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2022
• The community is invited to join in prayer and thanksgiving.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2019
• Leaders from area churches of many denominations offered prayers of thanksgiving and to the world, nation, state and city of La Cañada Flintridge.
  — Sara Cardine, La Cañada Valley Sun, 2 Nov. 2017
• There will be the traditional Trooping of the Colour and service of thanksgiving in addition to a gala concert featuring a host of celebrity names.
  — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• Later in the day, Meghan and Harry will take part in a service of commemoration and thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey.
  — Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• And like its neighbor, Canada’s first thanksgivings tended to be prayerful affairs.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
• Inside the disaster site -- and throughout the nation -- people prayed for more occasions of thanksgiving.
  — Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• Washington declared a day of thanksgiving and prayer in 1789, partly to honor the new U.S. Constitution.
  — Katey Psencik and David Jackson, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2020
• Celebration and thanksgiving were not the only purpose of the gathering.
  — Steve West, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 July 2018
• Our modern holiday is modeled on the harvest feast held by the Pilgrims in 1621, which many have noted was not what then would have been considered a religious thanksgiving.
  — Tiffany Blackstone, Good Housekeeping, 29 Aug. 2019
• That the thanksgiving sacrifice is a type of peace offering is of great import: When acknowledging God, the human being achieves a level of inner peace.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• All are welcome to attend the school dedication ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 4, at 10 a.m. The church will host a brief Mass of thanksgiving, followed by a blessing of the school building.
  — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
• For the ceremony May 19, Heinz read from scripture, offered a prayer of blessing and thanksgiving and sprinkled the animals in attendance with holy water.
  — Karen Ann Cullotta, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
• Ramadan is a period of thanksgiving and shared meals, but the festivities have been overshadowed by the economic crisis.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024