motorcade

noun

mo·tor·cade ˈmō-tər-ˌkād

Synonyms of motorcade next

: a procession of motor vehicles

motorcade intransitive verb

Example Sentences

the next part of the parade was a motorcade of fire engines

Recent Examples on the Web At one point during his visit on Sunday, Biden’s motorcade took him to a section of 20-foot-high fencing on the border between El Paso and Mexico. —

Brian Bennett, Time, 9 Jan. 2023 The motorcade arrived at Portland International Airport shortly before 4 p.m., and the president departed for Delaware. —

oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2022 Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his motorcade through Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, at the age of 46. —

Stefan Becket, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2022 Smash cut to archival footage of Queen Elizabeth II parading through the Commonwealth as crowds of Black subjects cheer her motorcade. —

Kristen Baldwin And Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022 His motorcade never stopped at the D.C. jail to offer support to the inmates before the insurrection. —

Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022 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 It has been well documented that Kennedy drove past 20,000 open windows as his presidential motorcade passed through the streets of downtown Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. —

Dallas News, 15 July 2022 As Bateman’s group became established, he was often seen wearing a crisp white leather jacket, traveling on Short Creek’s red dusty dirt roads in a single-file motorcade of two Bentleys sandwiched between two Range Rovers. —

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