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How to use eve in a sentence

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This threw the program into turmoil as successive candidates were interviewed on the eve of the season.
On the eve of his fateful appointment as chancellor, his party was tottering on the brink of disintegration.
The midsummer's eve dance was in precisely four days, and she already had her dress all prepared.
Well, it's never too wise to make it look like you're the belligerent warmonger on the eve of mid-term U.S. elections.
However, there is no room for complacency as these results can be very deceptive on the eve of a major event like the Olympics.
Because it was the eve of Rosh Hashana, the image of a shofar flashed through my mind, and I recalled a Biblical story I'd learned in school.
On shore leave in Manila, he meets up with Yuddy on the eve of a disastrous lapse in judgment.
The sanctions are calculated to go into effect on the eve of a presidential election year.
She also initiated an event on the eve of the road opening, a walk for charity organised by herself for the new road.
He was in his apartment, and had been fasting all day for the Fast of Esther, on the eve of Purim.
The eve was upon them, as a brilliant sunset became a glorious moonrise, transforming the lethargic day into a delirious nocturne.
But when they do this on the eve of elections, it is difficult to believe they are motivated by a genuine desire to serve the public.
On the eve of both Christmas day and Easter day, Orthodox Copts break their fast with a variety of dishes made of beef and poultry.
They should start now, instead of startling the public with novel ideas on the eve of the next general election.
Then, invite your pals over for a cozy eve of viewing videos and munching munchies.
He jumped bail on the eve of his 1981 trial and spent two decades on the run before he was nabbed.
On the eve of the wars unleashed by Edward I's invasion in 1276, Wales had essentially become divided into three zones.
On the eve of its annual festival Natasha Hughes asks if slow food could be the new fast food?
At least 500,000 people marched in New York City on the eve of the Republican national convention.
He said men should hold camps on the eve of the game where they will watch videos, have braais and chat about the team.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The tangka was a review, held on the eve of leaving the chief village, and at every halting-place on the way to the battlefield.
This is especially noticeable in what is called his discours-testament, the speech delivered on the eve of Thermidor.
In that very month Stockholm surrendered, and Gustavus held his proud entry into the capital on the eve of Midsummer Day.
Hassim had learned also that the Settlement was in a state of unrest as if on the eve of war.
So time went on to the very eve of the celebration, and it was as well that the celebration had never been.
It was nice, she thought, to have gotten through to him tonight, on the eve of the new year.
It is all right,' said Mr. Knight, who was as placid as dewy eve by the side of Elfride.
I was on the eve of my fifteenth birthday, and I was in a state of expectation as to the future of my life.
But I could find it in my heart to regret the witch even now that I am on the eve of beatification.
This was in pursuance of an idea which he had confided to Winfield, on the eve of his forth-setting.
But yester eve a party of merchants came slowly on their mules from Dusseldorf.
It was on the eve of Shrovetide, in the wilds about sixty versts from the railroad.
She sees herself on the eve of becoming the acquaintance of Captain blackball.
Concealing his agitation, he began the routine of such familiar labors as impend on the eve of battle.
This time he was not only irrecoverably in love, but on the eve of matrimony.
He may perhaps be on the eve of starting away by some of the vessels in the port.
On the eve of Innocents day, the priests gave way to the choir boys, the children, for the celebration of Childermas.
After three centuries we are at the eve of a recommencement.
And when friends are on the eve of separation, they like to spend the little time that remains to them close to each other.
The Little Opera Company's witty revival of Mozart's The Impresario proved an ideal way to while away a summer's eve on Aug.
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