PARADE in a Sentence

Learn PARADE 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.

62 example sentences for PARADE, such as:

1. The myths parade as modern science.
2. The police held an identity parade.
3. one is sometimes a bit hasty on parade.
4. Be at the levee tomorrow after the parade.
5. There was nothing to parade over in those days.

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 Meanings and Examples of PARADE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
parade
 n.  march in a procession; ceremonial procession; visible display
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  The streets were black with loafing negroes who leaned against walls or sat on the curbing watching vehicles go past with the naive curiosity of children at a circus parade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  He rose and went abruptly to the window and stood with his back to her, watching the solemn single file of ducks parade across the barnyard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  And, because she made no parade of her virtues the young girls did not resent her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  But her high spirits slackened as she beheld them form in dress parade, in a long, silent, uneasy circle clear round the living-room.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  There was nothing to parade over in those days.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  During this parade, and at innumerable cart-tail meetings as well, Jurgis labored tirelessly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
7  Without waiting for an answer from either, the young man threw himself down the grassy steps of the bastion, and moving rapidly across the parade, he was quickly in the presence of their father.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
8  A very few minutes only were necessary to parade a few files, and to dispatch an orderly with a flag to announce the approach of the commandant of the fort.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
9  Alice clung to the arm of her sister, and together they left the parade, accompanied by the moving throng that surrounded them.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
10  He once more endeavored to pass the supposed empiric, scorning even the parade of threatening to use the knife, or tomahawk, that was pendent from his belt.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
11  The youth thought of the village street at home before the arrival of the circus parade on a day in the spring.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  Chichikov sprang up with the alacrity of a military man, offered her his arm, and escorted her, as on parade, to the dining-room, where awaiting them there was the soup-toureen.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
13  one is sometimes a bit hasty on parade.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
14  Be at the levee tomorrow after the parade.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
15  Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness of a parade.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  She had a constant parade of young men coming to visit her.
2  The Olympic Games begin with a parade of all the competing nations.
3  Each generation passes through a similar parade of events.
4  A half million people watched the troops march in New York's ticker tape parade.
5  A military parade marched slowly and solemnly down Pennsylvania Avenue.
6  The police held an identity parade.
7  Drugs again rained on the Olympics'parade as another athlete tested positive for an illegal substance.
8  The myths parade as modern science.
9  Two men carried the standard in the royal parade.
10  The armed thieves used a carnival street parade as cover for their getaway.
11  He requested to array the whole regiment on the parade ground.
12  Last year's fashion parade led to protests from medical associations and women's rights groups, who complained that the participants were unhealthily skinny.
13  Although you can still hear sporadic outbursts of laughter and singing outside, the big Halloween parade has passed; the party's over till next year.
14  A fight-to-the-last-breath duel is often more compelling than merely a parade of highlight plays.
15  The litter in the streets after parade will be cleaned before tomorrow morning.