How to Use pageant in a Sentence

pageant

noun

• They disagreed with the pageant judges.
• Their church puts on an annual Christmas pageant.
• The Southern belle has made a splash in the pageant world.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 8 Sep. 2023
• My wife is a hall of fame Hooters girl and used to do the pageants.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
• Hosts and judges for both pageants are yet to be announced.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• Roku is also the new home of the Miss Universe pageant, which will stream Jan. 14.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 5 Jan. 2023
• The winner of the Miss America pageant will be crowned on Thursday.
  — Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
• Friedman says the South in particular is still the land of pageants.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• Next in her sight line was the Miss Universe pageant with an age maximum of 28 years old.
  — Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2023
• Like in the finance industry, there’s only a handful of Black faces in the pageant world.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 22 Sep. 2023
• The author at age 21 or 22, competing in the Miss Harvard pageant.
  — William Lee Adams, ELLE, 10 May 2023
• At the lab, Elizabeth has to attend a work beauty pageant.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Oct. 2023
• But the timing for a high-fashion pageant suddenly felt off.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Sounds like a winning answer to the pageant interview portion to us.
  — Michael Callahan, Town & Country, 29 Apr. 2023
• What inspired Chukwudi to enter the pageant two years ago?
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 22 Sep. 2023
• What: Carnival rides, games, food, a livestock show, live music, arts and crafts, a Fairest of the Fair pageant, a petting zoo and more.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• She was supposed to compete in a beauty pageant in July.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• The 72nd annual Miss Universe pageant is heading to El Savador.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2023
• In celebration of her victory in the pageant, Nicaraguans took to the streets, but not in the way the government would have wanted.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Nov. 2023
• An 18-year-old Georgia pageant queen has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of a child.
  — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2024
• The events are feeders for the annual Miss America pageant.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2023
• Chicago's hardest-working pageant queen, Naysha Lopez, is ready for the biggest contest of them all.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• She was born to a Lebanese father and a native Colombian mother and raised in a country where beauty pageants are a big deal.
  — Patricia Alfonso Tortolani, Allure, 1 Apr. 2024
• The 20-year-old won the competition Thursday, making her the pageant's 95th winner.
  — Cassie Maynard, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2022
• Until then, she was better known as a beauty queen traveling the world to compete in pageants.
  — Sara Tardiff, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• The only church tradition that kept my attention back then was the Christmas pageant.
  — Taylor Harris, Time, 13 Dec. 2022
• The book recounts her rise from pageant queen in the Philippines to a laudable career in fashion and advocacy in the United States.
  — Raquel Willis, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• The series starred Catherine Zeta-Jones as a former pageant queen who was hired to help train young contestants.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
• The rising tide of pageants may simply reflect a sea change in standards of male attractiveness.
  — Michael Callahan, Town & Country, 29 Apr. 2023
• The former football player, who spent one season with the Atlanta Falcons in 2009, and his beauty pageant wife were in the midst of a vicious divorce.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024