pageantry
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Mostly they knowingly forfeit the cash to have their 15 minutes in the limelight, sending up the pageantry of British politics.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
The ceremony, which featured pageantry, poetry, drama and music, marked the beginning of the seventh session of Holyrood since it was established in 1999.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
That it was live television and just this pageantry of people congratulating themselves, congratulating each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
The season will conclude on 12 September with the traditional pageantry of the Last Night.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
He loved the pageantry and mystery of the ceremonies, the camaraderie of the men, but he was not ambitious, and he would have been content to continue in his mid-level role forever.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
An arrival ceremony on the South Lawn ranks among the most regal of pageantries that Washington has to offer, reserved usually for the most important of visitors and even then for special occasions.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015
He has conceived scintillating decors for Ziegfeld pageantries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The company of Framework Knitters sprang into being in the time of Charles II., and was then extremely prosperous, indulging in expensive pomp and pageantries.
From Memorials of Old London Volume I by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
I have despised riches; honour and its pageantries could never raise a weak thought in me; beauty alone hath fired my soul.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle
Count,240 Will well supply the place of both—I am not A lover of these pageantries.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
