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UK
/mˈɑːtʃɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈmɑɹtʃɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈmɑɹtʃɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)
it was a long march
we heard the sound of marching
How To Use marching In A Sentence
- I'd have been content to wait out the weather in my tent, but Ron consulted his topo map and we headed off, marching along a streambed into foggy nothingness, south toward the foothills.
- Soldiers were marching up and down outside the government buildings.
- I wouldn't care success or failure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance. I wouldn't care the difficulties around, for what I can leave on the earth is only their view of my back since I have been marching toward the horizontal.
- Soldiers were marching up and down outside the government buildings.
- A screaming-chorus of local popstrels accompanies one song, a marching band of local trumpeters and saxophonists another.
- Born in 1930, Pinter was old enough to see and remember fascist actions in the East End and, of course, to be around when fascism stopped marching and started dropping bombs and launching doodlebugs.
- But directly, as a Mississippi regiment passed by, he noticed at the head of one of the companies an old man, almost as old as himself, his clothes torn, and ragged from long marching; shoeless, his feet tied up in sack-cloth and his old slouch hat aflop over his ears. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
- The same network (s) that aided and abetted the Bush adminstration in marching us to war in IRAQ without doing a fraction of the investigative journalism they've done throughout this primary on issues of little relevance. Schneider: Two different economic worlds
- I don't know that I'd go so far as to call our Mardi Gras tasteful I'm looking forward to the all-girl Camel Toe Steppers marching group tomorrow night, for example, but yeah, we're Miss Manners in comparison to this float. "If we had people dancing on top of dead bodies that would indeed be disrespectful."
- Just as I hate marching in the streets but do it because it must be done, I’m SOOO not a fund-raiser hobnobber…but God do I want Lieberman out on his ass! Firedoglake » STOP THE WAR – Pressure Congress