pageant
Example Sentences
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The logistics teams only breathe a sigh of relief once every street is clean, the traffic lights are returned, and the pageant of the parade is across the Lincoln Tunnel.
Rachel and Phoebe enter Emma in a baby beauty pageant while Ross and Joey go to a hockey game.
From Los Angeles Times
Sidewalks grew more crowded, and the fluid line between hipsters, tech workers, financiers, drug users and homeless people turned into a strange pageant running east and west of Spring Street.
From Los Angeles Times
Amazon’s 2018 announcement that it would be coming to Arlington capped off a year-long beauty pageant in which metro areas across North America competed to attract the company’s second headquarters.
From Washington Post
We see all of that in the rehearsal room where “The Thanksgiving Play” is set, even though what’s being rehearsed is just a holiday pageant for elementary school students.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.