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The advent of spring brings longer days and warmer weather.

The Pleiades were all abuzz over the advent of their visiting star, Miss Frances Homer,  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

These advances improved the odds of rescue, but even after their advent, most downed men were never found. ...fewer than 30 percent of men whose planes went missing between July 1944 and February 1945 were rescued.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

In our time, we may witness the end of ignorance, the end of oppression, and the advent of the brotherhood of man.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Always so deliberate, hardly surprised by the most outlandish advents.  (source) Cormac McCarthy, The Road, 2006

While the war slowed the growth of surfing, it was the technology coming out of the war effort that in the end helped to give the sport a new boost, as it led to the advent of lightweight surfboards.  (source) Bethany Hamilton, Soul Surfer, 2004

He had been finishing humans since the advent of the plague.  (source) Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave, 2013

Here is how one history of the period describes the advent of time-sharing: This was not just a revolution.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

With the advent of winter the traditional building season had come to an end.  (source) Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, 2003

Although to be perfectly frank, I had trouble navigating the world even before the advent of the blindness.  (source) Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses, 2013

Our wreck is certainly due to this sudden advent of severe weather, which does not seem to have any satisfactory cause.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

Then a panic seized the Yeehats, and they fled in terror to the woods, proclaiming as they fled the advent of the Evil Spirit.  (source) Jack London, The Call of the Wild, 1903

Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Roger Chillingworth made his advent to the town.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

The length of Advent varies from 22 to 28 days, depending on which day of the week Christmas falls.

Christians began celebrating Advent in the fourth century.

Mama decorated with Advent wreaths and candles.  (source) Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising, 2000

It is commonly said that the English know how to celebrate Advent best.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Bells and garlands, Advent stars in the shop windows, ribbons and gilded walnuts.  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

...the women wished to say that the Quiet Day they had scheduled for the beginning of Advent had been very successful—that the meditations, and the following period of quiet, for reflection, had been well received.  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

All month long, Jamie had thrown himself into getting ready for Christmas: stringing up an elaborate light show out front, putting Advent calendars in practically every room, dragging home the biggest tree he could find, which we then decorated with a mix of brand-new ornaments and homemade ones from Hunter holidays past.  (source) Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key, 2008

As the day approached, with fewer and fewer windows to open on the Advent calendar, my sisters and I were unruly with excitement, but the grownups seemed too busy to care.  (source) Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, 1991

Did you know that in these dark ages which were visible from Guenever's window, there was so much decency in the world that the Catholic Church could impose a peace to all their fighting—which it called The Truce of God—and which lasted from Wednesday to Monday, as well as during the whole of Advent and Lent?  (source) T. H. White, The Once and Future King, 1939

All the same, it seemed to him they were hurrying things, talking about Christmas even before the first day of Advent—it was still a good six weeks away.  (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

Advent [chapter title]  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

The first rehearsal, in the nave of the church, was held on the Second Sunday of Advent and followed a celebration of the Holy Eucharist.  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

The autumn equinox had passed, All Souls' was coming into view—and for expert consumers of time, that meant so were the first Sunday in Advent, the shortest day of the year, and Christmas.  (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

He'd come on board at Port Advent, after five of the crew didn't come back from shore leave.  (source) Terry Pratchett, Nation, 2008

She is due to leave Cape Town today on the schooner Sweet Judy, bound for Port Mercia via Port Advent.  (source) Terry Pratchett, Nation, 2008