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 on the Web The sheriff’s office deferred any questions about the motorcade to the United States Secret Service. Dalia Faheid, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024 Entering a motorcade shortly before 7:30 a.m., the pontiff was escorted throughout the city’s neighborhoods with tens of thousands greeting him with songs and cheers. Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024 They were aided by the quick response of the U.S. Secret Service, which diverted the motorcade upon receiving the threat intelligence. Richard M. Frankel, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2024 The second segment of the film shows the motorcade's dramatic race to the hospital after President Kennedy was shot. Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for motorcade 
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Noun
  • As a low-cost airline, Breeze offers value fares but with enhanced amenities on its brand-new Airbus A220 fleet.
    Stella Shon, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Its series of demands included Kyiv cutting its army to a fifth of its size, reducing its fleet of ships, helicopters and tanks and banning it from weapons research.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But aid agencies had difficulty moving the food brought ashore to areas further into Gaza where it was needed most because humanitarian convoys came under attack.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
  • To bring a convoy of pickups from out in the county sent an unsubtle message: this is our town now.
    David Litt, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • As police urged crowds to let cars pass and owners hastily adjusted costumes, onlookers spilled past metal barricades and joined the actual parade about an hour after the procession began.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
  • During Gai Jatra, families who have lost a loved one in the past year lead a cow in the procession, because cows guide the souls of the dead into heaven.
    Matt Ralphs, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The attack was yet another example of gunfire interrupting ordinary American life, from parade routes to campus homecomings to a night out on the town.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
  • More often than not, there is some parade, protest, rally, street fair, or movie shoot (or all of the above) going on—especially in the busiest parts of the city.
    Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2024

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