pageantry

Example Sentences

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From the minute King Charles and Queen Camilla stepped onto the White House South Lawn, US networks dumped their standard diet of political warfare and breaking news for something rare: pure pageantry.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

The season will conclude on 12 September with the traditional pageantry of the Last Night.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

The answers, though, seem largely incidental beside the pageantry of haute cuisine and burbling table talk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

At one point, I thought it would be cool to do like a pageantry baton spinning dance.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Wearing simple street clothes amid the pageantry made her feel even more the outsider—and the apprentice armband made it worse.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman