as in fleet
a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management the next part of the parade was a motorcade of fire engines

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Recent Examples of motorcade An extensive motorcade also waited for the U.S. official and his family on the runway. Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025 Sirens blared as the motorcade whizzed down Pennsylvania Avenue. Eric Cortellessa, Time, 7 Aug. 2025 The rest of her family were escorted by a motorcade from the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Office to a funeral home in Gastonia on Wednesday. Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2025 When a motorcade of DHS agents was executing a search warrant on the property, a massive gathering of protesters waving Mexican flags tried to intercept a part of the convoy by pelting some of the vehicles with rocks and shattering windshields in the process. Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for motorcade
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Noun
  • While Quark primarily operates in the polar regions, the company expands to subpolar destinations during the shoulder seasons, before the fleet repositions to the other side of the globe.
    Stefanie Waldek, AFAR Media, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, a Japanese Defense Ministry document dated October 2024 shows that a fleet of three Global Hawk drones was deployed at Yokota Air Base in Japan in May 2023.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Reliever Jonathan Bowlan — who became a full-time reliever this season — made the spot start before giving way to a convoy of pitchers.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
  • If jamming a head of state’s flight is possible, so is disrupting a humanitarian airlift, a naval convoy, or a swarm of autonomous drones.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Underneath the stark floodlights streamed a procession of weary travelers in T-shirts and jeans, reaching into the bottom of a white coach bus for their oversize duffel bags.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The family – all dressed in black — stopped the procession for a moment to view tributes left by fans to Ozzy at the Black Sabbath bridge and bench.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The scans after the victory parade revealed everything Bronze had expected.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The ten day adult party is a true Key West creative explosion, featuring a marathon of parties, parades, handmade costumes, headdresses, street fair food, and tropical island energy.
    Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Motorcade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motorcade. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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