pageant
Example Sentences
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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.
For all its verbal vaudeville, though, this holiday pageant occasionally hints at Thomas’s abiding theme, death.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
