How to Use pageantry in a Sentence

pageantry

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  • I like the tradition and pageantry that come with graduations.
  • From there, the pageantry moves to the Chamber of Deputies.
    — Janine Henni, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
  • There was a baseball game, a rock band, the lights, the pageantry.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2022
  • The pageantry planned by the French, who showed first, ran upward of two hours.
    — Bridget Foley, Town & Country, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Yet all this pageantry was the wheeze of a dying world.
    — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The Turtle Derby had all the pageantry of a horse race.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Biden, a Catholic, reveled in the pageantry of the Black Baptist church.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2023
  • That and the show business aspect of it in which there’s a pageantry to it.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
  • She was drawn to acting and the pageantry of the stage from an early age.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Watch the ridiculous pageantry of wildlife right beyond the glass.
    — Cynthia D'aprix Sweeney, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The athletes’ pauper lifestyles didn’t fit the pageantry of the event.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
  • The pageantry of the game was completely foreign to me.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 17 July 2019
  • In that way, the 10 days of pageantry was her final gift to her nation.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Others want to enjoy the pageantry of it all, one last time.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 4 June 2024
  • In the midst of the decay of the old pageantry a future was being prepared.
    — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
  • To be there last year and all the pageantry that comes with it, the flyovers and everything.
    — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2019
  • There is little precision or pageantry to the use of the bridge’s foghorns.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The book begins with the awkward pageantry of meeting the parents.
    — Jenny Wu, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Due to the star power, quality of the feud and pageantry of the cell, many fans felt Hell in a Cell should close the show.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • After a long day of pageantry, the ruler hosted a banquet.
    — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Gone, too, was the pageantry of a night on the town, when half the pleasure is wondering who might walk in.
    — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The $70 million, four-day, open-air event was filled with pageantry and fireworks.
    — Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2019
  • The scenery of the stadium in Pasadena alone is enough to draw in viewers, and there's a pageantry that is unique to the game.
    — Kevin Skiver, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But the 1936 Games aren't remembered for Germany's medals or the Nazi pageantry.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Dignitaries flew in from around the world to witness the pageantry and regalia.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • But the joyousness and sense of humor in the food felt at odds with the pageantry surrounding it.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Or the iconic pageantry surrounding the Run for the Roses?
    — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Trump is in London for a three day state visit, a trip marked by both pageantry and protests.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 4 June 2019
  • Beyond the pageantry, new matchups and varied backdrops will make for a season ripe for travel snafus and lessons learned.
    — Audrey Snyder, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The event is pageantry and patriotism with a revelry of cadets and midshipmen bouncing and cheering for their branch.
    — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024

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