Congratulating and celebrating
We use different expressions for celebrations: …

Examples of celebrating

celebrating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

I imagine myself in the coming decade celebrating and supporting others' efforts to do such things.
Her model of cross-culturalism does not aspire to conventions of 'celebrating diversity'.
Instead, consistent with his own left-liberal politics, he exculpated the state's bourgeois critics by celebrating the emancipatory potential of rational criticism.
Chapter 3 addresses the dates and manner of celebrating the saints' feasts, as well as the various manifestations of personal devotion to saints.
Longsurviving marriages are celebrated achievements for reasons similar to those for celebrating longevity itself.
It is largely a humanistic faith, celebrating the body and rejecting evangelical austerity and traditions of asceticism.
It seems to me that these ideas, of celebrating the 'ordinary' with the same delight as more precious materials, are fundamentally both humane and democratic.
The serenade begins with a choir of patriots, celebrating the meeting.
It would be mistaken to view the book simply as a valuable series of tableaux for an elaborate pageant celebrating 4,600 years of government.
This bipolar syndrome mirrors the brothers' alternating triumph (celebrating the death of a brutal father) and despair (reacting to the loss of the wise father).
The largest and most revealing were those celebrating the employers themselves, none more so than a son's coming-of-age.
Such instinctive understanding was especially appropriate for this fragile and delicately-constructed work, celebrating the intimacy of chamber music making.
He'd obviously been celebrating his return to the charts and no one wanted to press their luck.
This, to thank his compatriots on behalf of the nation and lead them in celebrating the ' success' of his military policy.
Ruthven begins the middle section of his aria by celebrating the new life that glows in his body after he drinks his victim's blood.
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