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Example sentences for "procession"

Lexicographically close words:
process; processe; processed; processes; processing; processional; processionally; processioning; processionists; processions
  1. The Mother put Bot'Chan on her back, and they all started in a procession for the Temple.

  2. So they marched in a gay procession to the little house in the garden.

  3. The salute over, the piers were deserted, the procession was formed.

  4. Cicely watched the procession from the windows of Paul's office, laughing constantly.

  5. The rusty iron gate was open, and a procession was passing in.

  6. Ten minutes are allowed for dressing, and then they all march in procession to the preparation-room.

  7. The procession was followed by a riot, which continued several days, and was attended with the destruction of Catholic chapels and private dwellings.

  8. Then the deputies of the Seine commenced a procession towards the tribune.

  9. Not until seven o'clock did the last procession pass by.

  10. The one carried at the head of the procession was the white banner of Vincennes, bearing in red letters the fraternal and revolutionary inscription, "Love one another.

  11. The immense procession having shown the Bastille and the boulevards its mysterious banners, frantically applauded, arrived about two o'clock at the cross-roads of the Champs-Elysees.

  12. The procession was still passing when a sinister rumour spread: the fort of Issy had been evacuated.

  13. The procession to the minster, often known as the bridal procession, must not be confused with the "Bridal Chorus.

  14. At the silent bidding of Gunther the vassals raise the body and bear it in solemn procession over the rocky height.

  15. Wotan eloquently greets Walhalla, and then, taking Fricka by the hand, leads the procession of the gods into the castle.

  16. The King ceremoniously embraces the couple and then the procession makes its way out, until, as the last strains of the chorus die away, Elsa and her champion are for the first time alone.

  17. As a festive procession is escorting him to church, Adriano rushes upon him with a drawn dagger, being infuriated at the slaughter of his family, but the blow is averted.

  18. Amid tolling of bells and mournful voices a funeral procession comes down the mountain.

  19. Let Frederick conceal himself within the minster, and when the bridal procession reaches the steps, come forth and, accusing the Knight of treachery and deceit, demand that he be compelled to disclose his name and origin.

  20. After which, the procession got back to Mudfog Hall any how it could; and Nicholas and the corporation sat down to dinner.

  21. Nicholas Tulrumble and the gorgeous procession went on together to the town-hall, amid the hisses and groans of all the spectators, who had suddenly taken it into their heads to consider poor Ned a martyr.

  22. Mr. Nicholas Tulrumble was seated in a small cavern with a skylight, which he called his library, sketching out a plan of the procession on a large sheet of paper; and into the cavern the secretary ushered Ned Twigger.

  23. Mr. Ingram's remains were escorted from the Brigg's House Hotel to the railway station by a procession of more than eight hundred of the British residents in the neighbourhood.

  24. On the day of the funeral all the shops and places of business in Boston were closed, the inhabitants filled the streets and followed the procession up to the gates of the cemetery.

  25. When the line of carriages had passed over the appointed route, and all the people had gazed and gazed to their heart's content, the procession approached the Residenz where Queen Olga received her imperial relative and guest.

  26. His son, however, while observing his wishes as to time and place of burial, took care that the state and dignity of the procession should befit royalty dethroned by death.

  27. The next procession that we saw with earnest eyes, after the Duke Eugen's, was that of a student of the Polytechnic School, who died from the effects of a sword-wound.

  28. This is not the first sad, stately night-procession that has occurred here.

  29. Aren't these words entirely appropriate to head a huge procession of aldermen, and other pompous municipal boards, and do credit to a great city?

  30. Or it was old Chapdelaine who followed the movement of the white clouds that rose above the tree-tops, sailed in glad procession across the clearing, and disappeared behind the dark spires on the other side.

  31. There was but just time to post Amherst Webber with his camera when the procession burst from behind the angle of the Mission fence.

  32. The procession was headed by a dozen men in slop clothes and villainous, billycock hats set at a rakish angle.

  33. At nightfall they set forth in long procession for the banana plantations, levying toll on them as far as Mua, fifteen miles distant, and returning to their perch before daybreak.

  34. The kodak representations of our procession were not flattering, but the large crowd of Tongans in the public square was too much preoccupied to perceive the humour in the show.

  35. A crowd of several hundred people--women and children for the most part--had assembled when a man ran in to say that the royal procession was coming up the road.

  36. Though we could not discover that he had any connection with the court, he certainly imparted to the royal procession an air of dignity that it sadly needed.

  37. As the President left the White House, to join the grand procession to the Capitol, a brilliant meteor shot athwart the heavens, above his head.

  38. The elector of Saxony and Luther's family resolved that he must be buried at Wittenberg, and on the 20th the funeral procession began its long march.

  39. A company of fifty light-armed troops commanded by the young counts of Mansfeld headed the procession and went with it all the way to Wittenberg.

  40. The sacred barks of the divinities preserved in the sanctuary of Karnak were then conveyed in procession by water to Luxor and back again; a representation of the festal scenes is given on the walls of the great colonnade.

  41. They appear as a corps, 600 strong, in a triumphal procession at Antioch (Polyb.

  42. Or practically the same result may be reached by philosophy: as with those Stoics who explained that omens are prophetic not as sent by the gods, but as involved in the same procession of fatal events.

  43. Along toward three o'clock a few members of the clique had occupied a vantage-point at the corner, in order to see the big procession pass by toward the Royal Castle.

  44. Somebody in the procession called for cheers and was answered with scattering hurrahs.

  45. She all but saw spirits--and shivered at the procession of life.

  46. It was Saturday night and a torchlight procession of soldier and civilians wound down the street.

  47. Without hesitation he told himself that they had not seen spectres marching in procession through the mysterious graveyard, but real, live, human beings.

  48. They came up out of one of those graves and marched in a procession into the ruined dead-house," said Prudence seriously.

  49. Procession after procession marched in, filling the church, and numbers of them stayed all day, lying on the grass about the church.

  50. The procession of actual Chartists, able to leave their work to join it, could never have amounted to four thousand.

  51. If any were killed whilst walking in the procession their comrades should move quietly on.

  52. There was less ground for alarm than when a Lord Mayor s procession passes through the city.

  53. Wilhelmine stood at the window and saw this ghostly procession glide by in the stillness of the night.

  54. And, stronger in my love than Cleopatra was, I will pass under the yoke, and march quietly in the triumphal procession of my rival.

  55. It was the funeral procession of Countess Julie von Ingenheim, conveying the corpse to the estate of the family Von Voss, to deposit it in the ancestral vaults.

  56. Every afternoon about three o’clock Patti and her guests go for a drive, a small procession of landaus and brakes rattling along the smooth country roads.

  57. Could he ever catch up with this procession which had all the time been moving on in the five years of his absence?

  58. The procession had started toward the town when Jack felt something soft poking him in the small of the back and looked around to find that the cause was P.

  59. He tells about the tragic exodus through the mountain passes--men, women and children; the babes and the feeble on the procession of bullock carts; the wolves howling through the night and gnawing at the bodies of the dead along the road.

  60. Somewhere far off at one end of the procession there was battle; somewhere down below at the other end there was peace.

  61. This process required hours, and it was not until three o'clock in the afternoon that the funeral procession proper left the Cunard offices at the waterfront.

  62. The low vestry door now opened and a very unexpected procession appeared.

  63. The whole procession knelt before the altar with perfect precision, and I saw beneath the priest's vestments muddy gaiters of the same kind as those worn by the gunners.

  64. The procession was a full hour in passing into the cemetery.

  65. The real gaiety, however, only began in the evening, when a torchlight procession marched up and down the main streets.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "procession" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    caravan; cavalcade; column; continuation; continuity; cortege; descent; extension; following; funeral; line; lineage; march; motorcade; order; pageant; parade; pomp; posteriority; procession; progression; prolongation; promenade; queue; review; rotation; sequence; series; stream; string; succession; train