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How To Use Boxing day In A Sentence

  • At home in Harrogate, Leon's mother watched as news of the disaster broke, knowing of her son's plan to dive on Boxing Day.
  • This involved quite elaborate dressing-up, and the fun and laughter of those Boxing Day nights was a treasure indeed.
  • Mr Robinson said he had been horrified to watch the Boxing Day disaster unfold and was desperate to raise money from busking as he could not afford to give any cash himself.
  • The tape survived, but only after it had spent Boxing Day drying on the radiator.
  • It was the best Christmas present of all for a young Stromness family when baby girl Holly arrived on Boxing Day.
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  • I remember the Boxing Day matches between the two clubs and the fierce rivalry they generated.
  • The Boxing Day tsunami and the Sumatran earthquake on March 28, which registered 9 on the Richter scale, have made the world conscious of these massive upheavals of the Earth.
  • The rally, in aid of charity, begins on Boxing Day.
  • Today, Boxing Day, I spent lazing around, tidying up and doing a bit of admin.
  • Forget ‘strewth ‘and ‘fuller than a seaside dunny on Boxing Day‘.
  • North Yorkshire police were today investigating allegations that a protester was attacked during a Boxing Day hunt in the county.
  • In the second case, a music teacher had to go to casualty in two separate hospitals on Christmas Day and Boxing Day 1993 after developing problems with his dressing.
  • There will be a hunt on Boxing Day.
  • Boxing day has also been a relatively sedate affair (so far).
  • Now, 50 years on and with a century of wedded bliss between them, they will celebrate their nuptials on Boxing Day with brunch with friends and family at the Belfry Hotel after a champagne reception hosted by their children.
  • They are all orphans who lost their families when huge waves swamped their coastal villages during the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
  • This is a great idea for an Aussie Christmas dinner or even a better way to use the leftover turkey for a Boxing day picnic.
  • This involved quite elaborate dressing-up, and the fun and laughter of those Boxing Day nights was a treasure indeed.
  • In Sumatra there have been serious quakes in the last several years which haven't had the same consequences as the one on Boxing Day.
  • When the island of Phuket was swamped by giant waves on Boxing Day, his sons Michael 24, and Matthew, 19, from Salford, feared he was dead.
  • Our record signing lashed home an unstoppable strike during a 59-minute run-out at Wembley - the first time he has found the net since Boxing Day due to a thigh injury.
  • Southport played the role of the seasonal turkeys as they were given a festive stuffing by the Shrimps on Boxing Day.
  • Doctors were unhappy with her condition and induced her, but did not expect the baby to arrive until Boxing Day.
  • The shock of what had happened on a quiet residential street in a suburb of Leeds on Boxing Day hung in the air yesterday.
  • Following the Boxing Day tsunami, Jo-Anne was quick to telephone to say they were okay.
  • By then the weather had improved for a grand Boxing Day out at the beach on the eastern coast, an area unfrequented by tourists.
  • The chancellor said the first step could be to freeze up to £1 billion of debts later this week owed by those countries hardest hit by the Boxing Day disaster.
  • Sasha Pagella was bodysurfing off a Malaysian beach when the Boxing Day tsunami struck.
  • Doctors were unhappy with her condition and induced her, but did not expect the baby to arrive until Boxing Day.
  • Branch, back in for the first time since Boxing Day, ran hard but without much joy and was replaced just after the hour by the more orthodox Ben Muirhead.
  • On Boxing Day at 6am the 150 guests were violently shaken from their sleep by an earth tremor - three hours later the Gibbons sisters would have to save themselves from drowning.
  • After already clocking 120 points, they are relishing the prospect of the Boxing Day derby with Swinton.
  • Authorities in Indonesia now believe as many as 130,000 people were killed in the Boxing Day tsunamis.
  • It was Boxing Day afternoon, and the third psychiatric session that week which had been attended by Hargreave.
  • Boxing day was ironically better than both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
  • Animal rights activists and fox-hunters clashed at the annual Boxing Day hunt.
  • Telephone lines will be open from noon on Christmas Eve until midnight on Boxing Day.
  • On Boxing Day she booked a canoe jungle tour along the island's densely forested coastline and set off into a bright, sunny morning.
  • I shall also be boring and traditional and do a forehock with loads of cider gravy on Xmas Eve, to supply the ham for Boxing Day cold cuts.
  • A few results offered false hope - a victory on Boxing Day away to Motherwell, Livingston taking a hiding at Perth.
  • Telephone lines will be open from noon on Christmas Eve until midnight on Boxing Day.
  • Less controversial, but equally correctly garlanded, was her 2006 TV film Tsunami, recreating, through a mesh of individual stories, the impact of the 2004 Boxing Day devastation of Thailand and Sri Lanka. Abi Morgan: Television's best-kept secret | Observer profile
  • Brady collapsed on Boxing Day, three months into a hunger strike in protest at his transfer to a tougher ward.
  • Record numbers of supporters heard defiant messages at Boxing Day hunt meets in the Vale, Cotswolds and Warwickshire.
  • Wetherby, one of five Boxing Day casualties, passed an inspection yesterday morning and is hopeful of staging today's fixture.
  • This is the view from The Coven Bedroom Window on Boxing Day morning - that's the moon setting.
  • Brady collapsed on Boxing Day, three months into a hunger strike in protest at his transfer to a tougher ward.
  • He only recently returned to the side after six weeks out with a neck injury, but the booking he picked up at Hartlepool United on Boxing Day means he has totted up too many disciplinary points.
  • The Boxing Day sales tradition was "consumer ritualism at its best".
  • Seven or eight years ago the bloodsports fraternity were claiming in newspaper advertisements that one million people attended Boxing Day hunt meets.
  • With the frontline safe, regimental staff officers come up on visits and the truce continues through Boxing Day.
  • Boxing Day, we spent in a similar way except that instead of a concert, we had a tombola. Work Camp 11022 GW
  • We may be dead on boxing day … or drowning in leftovers Getting ready for Christmas — Fusion Despatches
  • Boxing Day had dawned bright and clear, and for many tourists a gentle swim or some lazing on the beach beckoned.
  • His tough awareness, 'stickability' and all-round game have impressed as Wolves prepare to travel to Anfield to take on Liverpool on Boxing Day. Shropshire Star
  • Kathleen Fisher, of Clitheroe, was making a cup of tea on Boxing Day at her daughter's home at Lindeth Farm, Winster, when she spotted a large black cat prowling in her neighbour's garden.
  • Come on down to our Boxing Day blowout!
  • He hopes to play despite tweaking a hamstring on Boxing Day.
  • Imagine slipping this on come boxing day when the family comes around?
  • Given its roots in fox hunting, which greeted each 26 December as a red-letter day, national hunt racing's King George VI Chase at Kempton is a Boxing Day staple since 1947 that has provided imperishable memories of courage and drama. How Boxing Day sport became a permanent fixture in our hearts | Rob Bagchi
  • Americans will be at their desks on Christmas Eve and back, as ever, when dawn breaks on Boxing Day.
  • And the next day was an authentic Boxing Day, too: the kids fighting over toys and eating cold leftovers; the adults grouching at them through the half-closed eyes of a hangover.
  • He felt a searing pain in his side after hurling down a bouncer on Boxing Day, and was forced to bowl and bat on the following two days wearing heavy strapping and severely restricted because of the pain.
  • Obviously injuries may be picked up in their Boxing Day game against Portsmouth, so keep one eye on that match.
  • Last Friday was one of the biggest Boxing Day meets of the Tedworth Hunt for years and it attracted a larger than usual number of anti-hunt protestors.
  • As of Boxing Day, more than 100,000 people had signed up online for his campaign to fill India's jails with protestors who feel that a bill currently before Parliament will create a toothless ombudsman or lokpal in Hindi beholden to the very politicians it's meant to police. Delhi's Year of Drama and Stasis
  • Whether the skipper will return for the Boxing Day game, his manager was unable to confirm.
  • There are then trips to Macclesfield and Cheltenham on Boxing Day and December 30 respectively before welcoming Division Three title chasers Chesterfield to Bootham Crescent on New Year's Day.
  • As usual, shops will be shut Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.

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