How to Use motorcade in a Sentence

motorcade

noun
  • At the center of the motorcade is a long, dark sedan glistening in the bright sun.
    CBS News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The motorcade snaked through the Back Bay and into Cambridge.
    Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Mourners lined the roadway and deeply bowed as the motorcade passed by.
    Joohee Cho, ABC News, 12 July 2022
  • There’s a scene at the end of it where a helicopter fires missiles at a motorcade.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Dec. 2022
  • After that fraught first moment, the queen and Dukakis took a motorcade cruise up Hanover Street in a black Cadillac.
    Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Around three-fifteen, a motorcade pulled up to the courthouse and the former President ducked through the door.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The Benz motorcade dropped them off at Gleneagles, less than an hour away.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 29 May 2023
  • Coty Feith, 27, was too far away to see Biden get off the helicopter and walk arm and arm with Pelosi to the motorcade.
    Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Trump departed in the motorcade just before 6:15 p.m. and did not stop to speak to reporters.
    Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • No, but police may stop traffic when the motorcade drives through.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • As her motorcade wound its way into the city, a heavy rain drenched onlookers and forced the staff to cover the lectern in a plastic tarp.
    Stephen Castle, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2022
  • At least once, Mr. Adams used his motorcade to pick up Ms. Suggs en route to a fund-raiser.
    William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Biden was quickly ushered to an SUV joined by a motorcade.
    Amanda Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The first lady and the governor embraced on the tarmac, and the president and Green walked arm in arm to the waiting motorcade.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • From the motorcade, Trump saw Black people lining the streets and watching from balconies.
    Marianne Levine, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Biden's motorcade wound along a creek with banks strewn with flood detritus.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Next, his motorcade wound its way to a second event at a public golf course, called Pleasant View, just outside the city.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
  • From there, his motorcade is expected to go straight to the federal courthouse in D.C., a short drive away.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • And who is in those limousine motorcades that zip around town with police escorts?
    Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The new king waved as his black car drove down The Mall and through the palace gates accompanied by a motorcade of four cars and four police motorbikes.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Biden’s motorcade took a circuitous route to the Capitol, as hundreds of pro-cease-fire demonstrators tried to disrupt its path from the White House.
    Zeke Miller, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Inside the quiet enclave, the motorcade rolls to a stop in front of the home of one of the country’s most famous political couples.
    Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Donald Trump headed to the airport Monday to fly to New York for his arraignment in a motorcade that was 11 cars long.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Just minutes after Trump’s motorcade pulled away from the courthouse, his campaign was fundraising off the events.
    Michael Kunzelman, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The air-raid alarm had stopped by the time Mr. Biden got back into his motorcade and departed the monastery, and alarms sound almost daily in Kyiv, but the blare of the siren added to the bristling tension of the moment.
    Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • No one can be heard shouting expletives at the motorcade.
    Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In Shanghai, where Mr. Jiang died, a motorcade escorted his body to an airport, where it was flown to Beijing.
    Chris Buckley, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Traffic was stopped on highways so the motorcade could make the 12-mile journey unimpeded.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • The pair first spoke last May, when Madan blocked the prime minister’s motorcade with a banner reading legalize weed, and spent nine days in jail.
    Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Air Force One landed in Dallas around 11:40 a.m. and Payne was busy working on his feature as the president’s motorcade made its way through the city.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024

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