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Fourth of July
Fourth of July
noun
- the Fourth of Julythe Fourth of July a holiday in the United States, traditionally celebrated with fireworks: the day of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 Official nameIndependence Day
Fourth of July
- The day on which the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress in 1776; Independence Day .
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Example Sentences
Probably this belief is a heritage from that time in my boyhood when first I saw Fourth-of-July fireworks.
Once there was a great Fourth-of-July celebration at which it was said a real Revolutionary soldier was to be present.
It cannot be denied that our Fourth-of-July-men made a very impudent declaration, to say the least of it.
I do not suppose that one of them could have delivered a fourth-of-July oration on Patriotism.
Her voice was shrill as a night-bird's, and varied by sharp and sudden cracks, like fourth-of-July firecrackers.
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