How To Use Cortege In A Sentence
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As the royal cortège passed along the line, the soldiers doffed their caps, and when it arrived at the centre of each regiment, the fugle-man gave a signal, and they raised a loud shout, followed by a short expressive ejaculation, in their native language, which means, "God save the Emperor!
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After the service, the funeral cortège made its way to Rochdale Crematorium for committal.
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It was found in 1992 by a gravedigger, who'd been waiting for a funeral cortège to arrive when he noticed that one of the stones they were going to put the coffin on had some Egyptian-looking scratches in it.
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sounding like a full cortege had just gone past, horse-drawn hearse, the lot.
NIGHT SISTERS
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The cortège, accompanied by about 40 family and friends, was then returning to the cemetery for a short graveside service.
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I was in a phone box when the funeral cortege went past, I saw it through the glass.
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And, as a fitting tribute to the mechanic said to have a wonderful sense of humour, a pick-up truck belonging to his previous employer formed part of the cortège.
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Instead of a great inaugural parade, we would have witnessed the opening of a new capitalist cemetery, the funeral cortege bearing the titles of the fallen titans of yesteryear.
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He was a very popular young man who lived life to the full and was well liked by all who had the pleasure to know him, which was shown by the huge cortège at both the removal and burial.
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The cortege was a long one, mostly made up of the dead man's fellow Gephyriots.
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So full were the streets of Rome between Piazza Venezia and Piazza San Giovanni that the funeral cortège passed with difficulty through a crowd that was estimated variously at between one and two million people.
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He commissioned a series of twelve stone crosses, known as the Eleanor crosses, to mark the stopping-places of her funeral cortège from Lincoln to Westminster abbey.
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He said counterintelligence officials found in Mr. Gedenidze's apartment a detailed sketch of the president's office building, a copy of the itinerary of the president's cortege and details on his schedule.
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Ferragut recalled the cortege of Aphrodite which the doctor had so often described to him on summer evenings, by the light of the far-away gleam of the lighthouse.
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On envoya chez lui des genets pour apporter les présens; et, pour sa monture ainsi que pour sa suite, les chevaux qu'avoient laissés à la porte du palais ceux des grands qui étoient venus faire cortège au roi pendant la cérémonie.
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Many came on foot, and of these by much the larger part meant to accompany the _cortège_ only to the top of the Armboth Fell, and, having "sett" it so far, to face no more of the more than twenty miles of rough country that lay between the valley and the churchyard on the plains by the sea.
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She had visions of being followed by a cortège who would worship her as a goddess of luck.
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It is the final irony of a celebrity life to be upstaged by a grander cortège.
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The Oldham Scottish Pipe Band will lead the cortège into All Saints' Church for the service at 2pm before committal at the Crematorium at 3pm.
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What struck me was the music in the funeral parade, the cortege, the boots backward in the stirrups.
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The cortege turned in through the gates, snaked up the winding road, and pulled up to where we were gathered.
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The funeral cortège will then go onto Rochdale Cemetery where the fallen soldier will be buried with full military honours at 12.30 pm.
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St. Michael's Church was full to over flowing for the Requiem Mass last Friday morning after which the massive funeral cortège slowly wended its way to St. Michael's cemetery for burial.
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Expect traffic delays while mourners lining the streets throw benefit cheques and bottles of White Lightning in the path of the cortege.
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Many of the people who lined the streets to watch the cortège pass had been waiting all night.
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Did you get the chance to know Lady Betriz better while you escorted the cortege to Valenda, and after?
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When Tagore died in 1941, the huge crowd around his funeral cortege plucked hairs from his head.
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Huge crowds packed the streets, many weeping as rice showered down from balconies and church bells rang out to mark the passing of the funeral cortège.
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Crowds waiting outside Windsor Castle applauded as the cortège made its way through the main gateway.
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His homeward journey begins with a cortège of coffin-bearing vehicles.
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As the cortège, pictured here, appeared, slowly progressing towards the church escorted by two police motorcycle outriders, the Marines sloped arms.
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Her viscera were buried in Lincoln cathedral but the body was returned to Westminster, and at each of the twelve places where the funeral cortège rested Edward had a memorial cross erected.
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The cortège drove past the university, where hundreds of students and staff silently lined the pavements or watched from vantage points on surrounding buildings.
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The cortège was accompanied by a guard of honour made up of local ICA members.
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The funeral cortège was led by a lone piper and flanked by a guard of honour.
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A lone piper led the cortège and the school-children formed a guard of honour on the day of his burial.
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On December 5, as dockworkers and cartage men on distant St. Pierre marked the last day of Prohibition with a funeral cortege led by French and American flags at half mast, Sam Bronfman was already sitting on the four hundred thousand gallons of whiskey in the Rossville warehouse that had been part of the deal.
LAST CALL
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A million people lined the route of the funeral cortège while millions more watched on television.
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The rhythms of the cortège creep back in, as does the nervous main theme of the first movement.
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The singer climbs, grim-faced, into the band's chauffeur-driven, people carrier as though he's about to join a funeral cortège.
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The staff, dressed in their work clothes as chefs, maids, butlers, groundsmen and gamekeepers, removed their hats as the funeral cortège slowly passed.
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The procession passes serenely, like a cortege entering the cemetery gates.
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I was in a phone box when the funeral cortege went past, I saw it through the glass.
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At her funeral, there had been a plan for her beloved and grateful poor to form part of the cortège.
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They never bury their dead at sea, but always on a particular island, to which the funeral cortege of rude outrigged boats moves to the music of the paddle's dip. [
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sounding like a full cortege had just gone past, horse-drawn hearse, the lot.
NIGHT SISTERS
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They were following the cortege to the cemetery, and her dad was making jokes.
IN REAL LIFE
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The funeral cortège will then go onto Rochdale Cemetery where the fallen soldier will be buried with full military honours at 12.30 pm.
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Any travelling European with a medicine chest can get the same kind of cortege round his tent.
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In pounding rain, a cortège of international savants bore his body up a muddy road for burial below Montmartre.
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The flashes of lightning showed that the cortege was the object of a most determined attack, which sought to make its way to the palanquin of the princess.
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Did you get the chance to know Lady Betriz better while you escorted the cortege to Valenda, and after?
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The sabers and accoutrements clank, and the entirely unornamental cortège as it trots toward Lafayette Square arouses no sensation, only some curious stranger stops and gazes.
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Others among our cortège played at the jereed for our amusement.
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They were following the cortege to the cemetery, and her dad was making jokes.
IN REAL LIFE
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Courbet earthily depicts the digging of the grave; Manet represents a cortège, not necessarily meant to be seen in the context of the cemetery, but en route.
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Adding Creole sauce to an omelette is like turning a funeral cortège into a carnival.
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Thousands of people have turned out in this town, including sobbing family members, policemen, and other loved ones who have come here to show their respects with flower bouquets and, in fact, in front of the cortege is a cousin of the man who died, who is sobbing and caressing his picture.
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He was given a ‘grand’ funeral that included a cortège of fifty-six newsboys, six of whom carried his body from the home on Pear Street to St. Joseph's Church.
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A New Orleans-style jazz band headed the funeral cortège as mourners paid their respects to an Old Town institution.
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From here, the burial cortège, priests and visitors would pass through ceremonial halls onto a causeway that ascended the desert escarpment to the mortuary temple, built against the east face of the pyramid.
