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
She competed in—and won—pageants and was active in her Baptist church, before getting a degree in home economics from the University of Kentucky.
Miss Mexico was crowned Miss Universe in Thailand on Friday, strutting to victory after the beauty pageant's host had publicly chastised her, among several dramatic missteps in the run-up to the final stage.
From Barron's
The controversies, analysts say, underscore the cultural and strategic differences between the pageant's Thai and Mexican owners.
From BBC
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