PAGEANT in a Sentence

Learn PAGEANT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

12 example sentences for PAGEANT, such as:

1. This is a pageant, all may see.
2. We are all invited to take part in the pageant.
3. Our youngest son is taking part in the school pageant.
4. When we had our pageant, the grass didn't recover till autumn.
5. Sitting in the shell of the room she watched the pageant fade.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAGEANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pageant
 n.  elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainment; show, spectacle, or display
Classic Sentence:
1  Every summer, for seven summers now, Isa had heard the same words; about the hammer and the nails; the pageant and the weather.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  This afternoon he wasn't Giles Oliver come to see the villagers act their annual pageant; manacled to a rock he was, and forced passively to behold indescribable horror.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
3  This is a pageant, all may see.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
4  Then again, as the play or pageant proceeded, my attention was distracted.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
5  So that each of us who has enjoyed this pageant has still an opp.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
6  When we had our pageant, the grass didn't recover till autumn.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
7  Sitting in the shell of the room she watched the pageant fade.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
8  To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
Example Sentence:
1  Information minister Jerry Gana released a statement in which he says there has been an international media conspiracy against Nigeria, to highlight the controversy surrounding the beauty pageant and fanning the flames of violence.
2  We are all invited to take part in the pageant.
3  With even Mr. Maduro lamenting the tragedy during a speech on national TV, the young woman's death has resonated in part because she was a pageant winner in a country that has long prized its production of more Miss Universe winners than any other country.
4  Our youngest son is taking part in the school pageant.