How to Use Halloween in a Sentence

Halloween

noun
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  • In the Friday the 13th movies and in Halloween, the constant is Jason.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 8 May 2024
  • Ahead, 20 of the best little black dress Halloween costumes to give a go this year.
    — Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The teen, dressed in a white tuxedo, went to the wrong house while looking for the address of a Halloween party.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
  • For some people, the time to get ready for Christmas is the second Halloween ends.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
  • Do the football games, the basketball games, all the Halloween parties and all that stuff.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Pop-Tarts shaped like hearts for Valentine’s Day; coffins for Halloween.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The city has seen virtually no snow on the ground since Halloween.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The boys were discussing Bridgers’s Halloween party, which went down over the weekend.
    — Lizzy Goodman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Go ahead and file this one under genius Halloween ideas and the best dog Halloween costumes of all time!
    — Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 20 July 2023
  • This movie's inclusion on any and all Halloween lists is a no-brainer.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • On Halloween, the whole gang struggles to find costumes that are edgy but not offensive.
    — Arielle Zibrak, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
  • This ultra-festive touch will dress up any Halloween drink.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2024
  • In the past, they were promoted on campus tours and sometimes brought out for Halloween and other events.
    — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The Halloween Tree is a heartwarming and thought provoking story that both kids and adults can learn from.
    — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 29 Aug. 2023
  • News that an arrest had finally been made came on Halloween in 2022.
    — Ron Wilkins, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Wright, Mitchell and Shane Zylstra combined for nine touchdowns last season, all of them in the 10 games after Halloween.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2024
  • During the morning of Halloween that year, Brown arrived at the woman’s workplace and was told to leave by Woodkins, who was her friend.
    — Fox19, The Enquirer, 9 May 2024
  • The project is a continuation of what the couple had done for Halloween last year — dressing up as Swift and her boyfriend Travis Kelce.
    — Michael Roppolo, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The evening before Halloween, the family’s lives turned upside down.
    — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The rise of Halloween has sent some retailers scrambling to keep up with their competitors.
    — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Flatten your feet and slide into a pair of Birkenstocks to embrace your own weirdness this Halloween.
    — Lisa Levine, Variety, 17 Aug. 2023
  • These include Thanksgiving, Halloween and ringing in the New Year.
    — Nicole Pelletiere, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • With each passing year, more young women discover the film and dress up as Jennifer Check for Halloween.
    — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Bousman and his dad had a yearly tradition where the two would head to the West Bottoms every Halloween and wait in line to visit each haunted house.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2024
  • Think apples and pumpkins for Halloween and potatoes and squash for Thanksgiving.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Lord was fatally beaten at an Oct. 28 Halloween party in Queen Creek and died two days later.
    — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Here a team of legendary heroes assembled on Halloween—Gandalf and a Star Trek captain among them.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Her first memory after the crash is a hazy one of celebrating Halloween in the hospital, nine days after the she was hit.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 1 July 2024
  • The rest of the carousel featured photos of the couple at various points in their first year together, from dressing up for Halloween to a night out along the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
  • The family of 16-year-old Preston Lord, beaten to death at a Halloween party, has filed a wrongful death lawsuitagainst the seven people charged with murdering him.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024

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