ceremonial

Some council meetings essentially are ceremonial and waste the time not only of representatives but also of their staffers, who could be doing other work, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Montana Levi Blanco’s imposing Elizabethan costumes referred to the opera’s Shakespearean source, and the ruin of the Macbeths was all the more noticeable when their grand ceremonial garments were stripped away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Every year, a person of special importance serves as the ceremonial guitar string cutter to open the festivities.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Road closures will be in place in Hartlepool for PC Blades' funeral from 07:30 BST to allow for a full police ceremonial funeral.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Uncle Kufa had given two serval skins to the nganga in return for headache medicine, and the nganga had made himself a ceremonial hat.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Then, Scorsese and the film’s stars — Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio — started coming to the ceremonials, and George was struck by how attentive they were.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

After a brief interlude for some Black Rod ceremonials, Lindsay Hoyle allowed himself to be re-elected as Speaker.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2019

The ceremonials were the same, and we filed into the Council Chamber a little before four in the afternoon.

From Nature ● Dec. 18, 2018

We climbed and explored Acoma and Bandelier, Mesa Verde, went to Indian dances and ceremonials and powwows.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 28, 2016

She salutes Grandfather, slender and shining in her ceremonials, her black cloak fluttering lightly.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir