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How to use fete in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Fete means a festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity. Example: “The summer fete was opened by the mayor.”

Examples of fete by meaning

nounA festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.

  • The final fete of the year was held at the Plymouth Hoe on 20 July, where fine weather and crowds of people ensured much support for local charities and boosted club finds.1991, Treasure Hunting, Treasure Hunting Publications

verbTo celebrate (a person).

  • Danielle Salamon was also four when she was feted as a musical genius in 1953.1992, Today, News Group Newspapers Ltd
  • Saxophonist Pete Wareham, his friend and collaborator in Polar Bear and the critically feted groups Acoustic Ladyland and Fulborn Teversham, soon punctures that idea.2007 April 6, Mike Barnes, “Is this the hardest-working man in music?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023

More sentences with fete

  • The summer fete was opened by the mayor.From the entry open
  • The fete opened an hour late because of bad weather.From the entry open
  • The team grew fond of their gruff, curmudgeonous supervisor and feted him with a party upon his retirement.From the entry curmudgeonous
  • Che Guevara remains a polarizing Marxist revolutionary, feted by some as a champion of the poor and reviled by others as a bloodthirsty monster.From the entry polarizing
  • From Monday through Friday they talked constantly about the previous Saturday-night fete: which panman (a steelband player or pan builder) went home with what girl.2009, Maria Pereira, A. Myrna Nurse, River of Fire: Incidents in the Life of a Woman Deputy Sheriff, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry panman
  • The fete was Mary Beth's half-birthday.2004, Ginnie Mesibov, Outer Strength, Inner Strength, page 39. From the entry half birthday
  • And the kitchen-drawer ching, Playing the countless changes, and The fetes one plans, coveting The wrapped hoards of the traders, and thinking "The ravenly winter is all yours."1949, Rosalie Moore, The grasshopper's man. From the entry ravenly

Meaning of fete

  1. noun A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
  2. noun A feast, celebration or carnival.
  3. verb To celebrate (a person).

Full definition of fete

Questions about fete in a sentence

How do you use fete in a sentence?
Fete is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The summer fete was opened by the mayor.”
What is a short sentence with fete?
“The fete was Mary Beth's half-birthday.”
What does fete mean?
Fete means a festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fete (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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