pageant

How To Use pageant In A Sentence

• The pageant promises to be a curious mixture of the ancient and modern.
• Thousands of visitors are set to descend on York when the five-day festival of horse racing and pageantry comes to the city in June next year.
• The year is filled with important religious events, and all localities are identified with patron saints who are celebrated, somewhat competitively, with fireworks and festa pageantry, including processions.
• Miss World organisers could not immediately explain the no-shows, saying only that they hoped the others would arrive before the pageant finale on December 7.
• Boxing champion Mike Tyson was, of course, convicted in the 1992 rape of a beauty pageant contestant.
• You gummed the pieces with sheer delight, making mmmm, mmmm noises and waving your hands like some beauty pageant winner on a float being pulled down Main Street.
• The fuss over coverage of the jubilee river pageant shows that we still care. Times, Sunday Times
• The natives so embraced the pageantry and the promise of the new faith; and centuries later, testament to that Christian hegemony is the ubiquity of an iconolatry, none as dispersed into the bowels of urban and rural religious life as the icon of the Santo Nino.
• I abhor beauty pageants; whoever thought of those stupid, mindless activities was out of his mind.
• By the 19th century the play had been transformed into a spectacle of patriotic pageantry celebrating imperial Britain and the glory of its military.