pageant
Example Sentences
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She was a finalist in the Miss Scotland beauty pageant, then started a new job travelling the world as an airline steward.
From BBC
A plywood arch bearing the words “Caius Caesar: Preparing For Triumph” had been fastened to the door; the kids were getting ready for the annual Roman pageant.
When Louise, angling for attention, participates in her church’s Inner Beauty pageant, her talent is holding her breath until she faints.
The shorts often satirize Christmas traditions such as gift-giving and pageants.
From Salon
What we have, instead, is a Parisian pageant, energetically rearranging how some things looked in a few precious years between the catastrophes of the two world wars.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
