pageant
Example Sentences
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The controversy around Ms Dzafce is a postscript to a chaotic Miss Universe pageant hosted in Thailand that had been hounded by walkouts and allegations of rigging.
From BBC
This year, the pageant is going to be more meaningful.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
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