How to Use pageantry in a Sentence

pageantry

noun

• I like the tradition and pageantry that come with graduations.
• There was a baseball game, a rock band, the lights, the pageantry.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2022
• The pageantry planned by the French, who showed first, ran upward of two hours.
  — Bridget Foley, Town & Country, 26 Apr. 2023
• The Turtle Derby had all the pageantry of a horse race.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2022
• Biden, a Catholic, reveled in the pageantry of the Black Baptist church.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2023
• That and the show business aspect of it in which there’s a pageantry to it.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
• In that way, the 10 days of pageantry was her final gift to her nation.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
• There is little precision or pageantry to the use of the bridge’s foghorns.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The book begins with the awkward pageantry of meeting the parents.
  — Jenny Wu, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
• After a long day of pageantry, the ruler hosted a banquet.
  — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• The scenery of the stadium in Pasadena alone is enough to draw in viewers, and there's a pageantry that is unique to the game.
  — Kevin Skiver, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2024
• Dignitaries flew in from around the world to witness the pageantry and regalia.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• But the joyousness and sense of humor in the food felt at odds with the pageantry surrounding it.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• But that pageantry appeared to wake up this sleeping giant with Davis at the helm.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2022
• The senior was also trying not to get caught up in the pageantry of senior night.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
• Royal pageantry is to be on full display: The coffin is to be draped in a royal flag and scepter.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022
• Baker’s final full day at the State House was full of hugs, pageantry, and photos, many of them with Democrats.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• So enjoy the games and the great young players and the pageantry that is such a major part of this state’s football fabric.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
• The Oscars can be a bridge, too, between the pageantry of the awards and the sincere recognition felt by those honored.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2022
• After the dust has settled on the pageantry of the weekend, would LIV revisit the Boston area?
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• That’ll be a special game for my family and any of our fans that go will see how much pageantry there is around the Navy games.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 5 July 2023
• The cost-cutting shift was welcomed by some who saw the floats as a distraction and dismissed by those who loved the pageantry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
• The pageantry of royal death in the United Kingdom this week has its origins in power.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2022
• When the hours of pageantry did come to a close, an almost overwhelming sense of relief arrived.
  — Naomi Pike, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2022
• There will be a little less pageantry in Austin this weekend for the Alabama-Texas game.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2022
• The start of the working week is another day steeped in the historic pageantry and pomp that follows the death of a British sovereign.
  — Mike Corder, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
• But my attention has always fallen on the pageantry of it all, the campiness, the fashion.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• For a cool 360-degree video of the pageantry a few years ago, watch the below: This content is imported from YouTube.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 16 May 2022
• Anderson, like Thompson, grew up in the West End and has a long history in pageantry.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2022
• The ostensible purpose of all the pageantry was to celebrate the queen’s birthday, which was in April.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024