Sentence examples for procession from high-quality English sources.

• It really did look like a procession.

• Pageant, a large-scale, spectacular theatrical production or procession.

• There’s a large main procession followed by a smaller one on a later date.

• This ritual observed, the procession made its way slowly along Oxford Street to Platt Fields.

• Kennedy walked in the procession between her husband’s brothers, Robert and Edward.

• The word probably came from the Greek thriambos, the name of a procession honouring the god Bacchus.

• Traditionally, the procession is always refused lodging, though the hosts often provide refreshments.

• That was the inscription on one of the banners carried on Saturday in the Peterloo centenary procession.

Use procession in a sentence.

• Motorcyclists joined in on the celebration, riding their bikes in a procession past Paul and his family.

• The best-known is the annual procession of Jagannatha (“Juggernaut”), a form of Vishnu, at Puri in Orissa.

• In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath.

• The procession then went on its way to the Abbey, the King following as chief mourner the coffin and its gun-carriage.

• If snow falls during a marriage procession, it is believed that the newlyweds will face many misfortunes or difficulties.

• In the 15th century the procession was customarily followed by the performance by guild members of miracle plays and mystery plays.

• The procession led to the banks of the Dwarakeswar River, where the body was cremated and the soul set free, according to Hindu tradition.

• In a northeastern recess is carved a long procession of mostly male figures to the west and female to the east, meeting on the far northeastern wall.

procession sentence examples

• The procession on Candlemas (February 2), which includes the blessing and carrying of candles, might well be another instance of the church’s subrogating a pagan procession.

• During the Middle Ages the ceremony for the blessing of the palms was elaborate: the procession began in one church, went to a church in which the palms were blessed, and returned to the church in which the procession had originated for the singing of the liturgy.

• Festivals in Kathmandu include, in spring, the Shivaratri and the Machendra Jatra with its procession bearing the image of the god Machendra; in late summer, the Gai Jatra (festival of the cow); and, in early autumn, the Indra Jatra, during which the goddess Devi, represented by a young girl, is carried in procession.

• As she put it: ‘We felt that although West Indians, Africans, Irish and other nationalities all live in a very congested area, the very little communication between us…’ The 1965 Fayre therefore included pageants, procession, musicals; international song and dance; Dickens and drama recitals; Jazz and folk music; poetry and choir night; a torchlight procession; and fireworks.