How to Use processional in a Sentence

processional

1 of 2 noun

• He led a slow processional into the church.
• More than 300 guests stood at the start of a harp processional.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2023
• Some lines stretched for blocks and scores of folks hadn't been whisked to the route by the time the processional began.
  — Cindy George, Houston Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• Now, at last, the show will embark on its pop-royal processional.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
• The rest of the processional was a bit more mellow, with a harpist playing as the bride entered.
  — Shira Savada, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 June 2021
• All those wishing may join in a tractor processional from the church to the cemetery.
  — courant.com, 12 June 2019
• The processional’s route will be posted at a later time.
  — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2025
• Woods, then in his prime, won by eight strokes, turning the final round into a processional.
  — New York Times, 17 July 2022
• The event also includes a flag processional, crafts and a fashion show.
  — Christina Hyder, Laurel Leader, 1 Mar. 2018
• The factory floor looked like a wedding processional had just passed through.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
• The processional from the narthex down the nave to the altar has been compressed into a passage of just a few steps.
  — Curbed, 6 Dec. 2022
• The groom will then arrive with his friends and family from the baraat processional, likely along with a drummer.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2026
• In a debutante processional, the young woman will walk out on her father’s arm, followed by one or two younger escorts.
  — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Still unsure about your own processional timeline?
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2026
• The wedding processional was just about to start and everyone was lining up to begin walking down the aisle.
  — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2019
• That Saturday and Sunday wouldn’t turn into a processional like a year ago.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2021
• The festival’s traditional processional of flags of the world also will take place.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Nov. 2021
• The processional is usually set to music, either on a recording or by live musicians.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2026
• Not even Khomeini received such a processional with his death in 1989.
  — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2020
• The solemn processional drew a respectful crowd of thousands to the Scottish capital.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2022
• Authorities said that they were given no alert to potential danger prior to the processional.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 11 June 2023
• The glad-handing of the processional after the House doorkeeper announced his arrival.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2020
• As the band halted its parade in view of the singer, the notes of its traditional processional began to dissolve into something far more abstract.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• But the vast majority of tests still require a nasal swab performed by a health processional that must be processed at high-tech laboratories.
  — Matthew Perrone, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2020
• In a news release, the city said residents are welcome to pay their respects to the mayor during the processional to the cemetery, with the route to be announced later this week.
  — Tyler Carter, Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2020
• At the gate to Crown Hill Cemetery, officers involved in the processional will disperse.
  — Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star, 16 Apr. 2020
• Any questions concerning the processional should be directed to Fire Lt.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al.com, 19 June 2019
• The Grand Prix has been criticized as a processional where Saturday hot laps decide the result.
  — Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 7 June 2026
• For this quirky event, residents gather at a local marina and join in a prayer for local fishermen and their families while a processional of boats passes.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 May 2021
• Hard work on an aero package that attempts to find a happy medium between having a carousel of leaders and a 500-mile processional in Speedway.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2021

processional

2 of 2 adjective

• The color guard will also lead this week’s processional on the Mall.
  — Janelle Harris Dixon, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
• Neither have traces of a processional bark from the festival ever been found.
  — National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• Qatar was meant to be a processional grand prix, where positions gained, maintained or lost on the opening lap would prove critical.
  — Luke Smith, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
• Once the bride and groom arrived at the mountaintop, Ellie was tucked away out of guests’ view and the processional began.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 14 July 2021
• The doors will close once the processional begins and will not reopen until graduates are seated in the arena.
  — Arkansas Online, 6 Dec. 2022
• To conclude the program, the flags processional will again form and formally exit to mark the end of the ceremonies.
  — Faye Reeder, star-telegram, 4 Nov. 2017
• Hundreds of volunteer marshals and members of the armed forces will also act as stewards along the processional route.
  — Jill Lawless, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2022
• Cohen stood for more than two hours during the processional honoring our sister, Det.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• Pogacar held it for just one day, the last and most important, on the processional ride to the finishing line in Paris, with yellow bike to match.
  — John Leicester, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2020
• Additionally, this year’s graduates will sit in the stands with their guests, and there will be no formal processional.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2021
• Each evening in cities and villages across Mexico, a child dressed as an angel leads a processional, usually made up of children.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 27 Nov. 2021
• Teenagers planted American flags along a processional route Thursday in the pouring rain.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• In the song’s intro, processional drums and a trembling guitar line promised a power ballad with all the poignance of a Steven Spielberg movie.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2022
• Guests lined up along the venue’s grand staircases for processional entries and extravagant photographs, a true sight to behold.
  — Zachary Schwartz, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2022
• It is situated at the intersection of two long thoroughfares — one that runs north to south and a second that runs east to west — which might have been used as processional routes.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
• There is no cost for motorcyclists to join in the processional ride, but each rider and passenger must sign a waiver of liability.
  — cleveland, 29 Aug. 2021
• Family members attended and watched the graduates walk in a classic processional parade in a blue cap and gown to receive their diploma.
  — Neil Senturia, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• The Republican Curtis Sliwa emerged as the most pro-processional of the bunch.
  — Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
• The pair of 8-meter-long sphinxes flank the entrance to a processional avenue, which celebrants would have followed from the main part of the temple to a columned courtyard.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2022
• That narrative will be found in the heady mix of regiments, processional and occasional music, and not least, in the scripture and hymns of the service itself.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
• The church’s annual processional through Little Italy to the Embarcadero to bless the fishing boats was canceled this month.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• The processional pairings for the opulent event surprised some royal fans and political followers alike.
  — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
• Knauf warned that Windsor is expected to be incredibly busy on the day, and recommends those hoping to stake out a spot on the processional route to leave themselves plenty of time.
  — Max Foster, CNN, 4 May 2018
• The largely processional final Giro stage, that ended with eight laps through Rome, was won by sprint specialist Jonathan Milan.
  — ABC News, 31 May 2026
• Everyone is familiar with the standard processional sequence of concluding one’s passage through a museum’s galleries with a return to a main hall and then back to the city outside.
  — Anthony Paletta, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
• Carrying processional lights numbers of last night’s posada pleading for lodging at the various restaurants and inns near Old Town plaza but each time were refused.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
• However, the processional pairings for the opulent event raised some eyebrows among royal fans and political followers alike.
  — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
• An element of processional order is also logistics.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2026
• Some may follow a processional order based on their religion, while others might choose a non-traditional wedding procession where the couple goes arm-in-arm together alone.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2026
• The 21-stage race ends with its customary processional Sunday finish on the Champs-Elysees.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017