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Example sentences for "parading"

Lexicographically close words:
parade; paraded; parades; paradigm; paradigms; paradisaic; paradisaical; paradisal; paradise; paradises
  1. Upon calling over our names, and parading ourselves before captain Davie, we could discover, in a second, the harsh temper of the man.

  2. The men were cruelly harrassed by the barbarous custom of mustering and parading them in the severest cold, and even in snow storms.

  3. Down the courtyard came a dozen of gendarmes parading a prisoner.

  4. They are all down by the chapel staring at the new lamps and parading themselves along the path.

  5. This was the hour for walking the deck; and, till near teatime, almost the whole company might be seen parading like a school.

  6. The Russians preferred being agents of their own destruction, and did not give the conqueror a chance of parading the fruits of his victory.

  7. But this so-called Duke could help parading the doubtful honor of his descent; yet who fails to return his bow?

  8. If the judgment was against him he would have gone on and done the best he could with the means at hand without parading his grievance before the public.

  9. They tell me that in recent years she has been parading around with a young lad, almost a child .

  10. It would be an artist, indeed, who could analyse and adequately describe the feelings of a man parading for his first night-attack.

  11. Fire companies parading ready for any emergency; the son of mine host tugging away at the rope of the engine in his red shirt, like a juvenile Atlas, as proud as Lucifer, as pleased as Punch.

  12. Yankee industry was most disagreeably prominent at several of the stations, in the shape of a bevy of unwashed urchins parading the cars with baskets of the eternal pea-nut and various varieties of lollipop, lemonade, &c.

  13. Why, if Wert Payley presumed to deny me the ballot, I wouldn't think of parading about it.

  14. When an ordinary Homeburger wanted to help boost McKinley to victory by parading in some distant town with a torch, it cost him five dollars and a suit of clothes.

  15. There was only a mawkish color reprint of "Mary Stuart and Rizzio" parading its faded romance in the show window.

  16. All this was very fine, but still it was streets and houses; and there were crowds of gay people parading up and down, looking as busy about nothing and as full of themselves as if the great awful sea had not been close beside them.

  17. He still, however, had sufficient strength to persist in his refusal, and repeated his reasons; albeit conscious of the bad taste he was showing in thus ostentatiously parading his animosity and obstinacy in such a place.

  18. This parading throng that was more curious than interested, more jealous than sympathetic, more critical than kind, was coming almost solely to observe.

  19. Day scorned the packed, parading trolley cars, and swung vigorously up the street.

  20. A great many other people were parading up and down also; pretty girls, walking alone, or with parents, or accompanied by youths with whom they intended to flirt during the voyage.

  21. Possibly he might have economized coin by parading his title, but though spoiled and conceited he was also a gentleman, and while he might trade upon his position for the matrimonial market, would not flaunt it gratuitously.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.