NOUN
- observed in many countries to celebrate the coming of spring; observed in Russia and related countries in honor of labor
How To Use May Day In A Sentence
- I implore the May Day protesters to worry about real problems, rather than just labelling everything as an evil of capitalism.
- Not only is it blighted by foul conditions but it also bears no relation to the original concept of a May Day celebration. Times, Sunday Times
- Once May Day is over, direct activists are to turn their attentions to a huge arms exhibition at the end of the summer.
- The red flag fluttered over Sheffield town hall on May Day, a reminder of the city's radical past dating back to the Chartists.
- He had overall responsibility for the policing of the May Day riots.
- May Day in Berlin has been marred by "anticapitalist" violence for more than two decades now. Mayday for Capitalism
- I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
- In the intervening years, May Day has become ensconced in international workers' movements.
- The next morning there was a last-minute change of plan to avoid arriving back in London while it was awash with May Day demonstrators.
- I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
