How to Use marcher in a Sentence

marcher

noun
  • In their place is a group of Black marchers at a protest.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Calling for the freedom to vote, marchers were met by clubs and tear gas.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The streets of London, Paris and Berlin are blocked by marchers calling for jihad.
    Dominic Green, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In 1965, Selma to Montgomery marchers spent their last night at St. Jude.
    al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The Muslim side was also armed and ready to clash when the Hindu marchers arrived.
    Hari Kumar, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Rock began his career as a stage-marcher, going back and forth and back and forth.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Music to lift souls and ease soles Support to lift the spirit of the marchers came in a multitude of ways.
    Lloyd Daniel Barba, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This is how the Belafonte magic worked: King would call for marchers.
    Wil Haygood, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The bicoastal picket also drew about 400 marchers in New York City.
    Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • As some marchers scramble into a nearby patch of woods, a flash-bang goes off.
    David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2024
  • At the end of the day, four marchers lay dead, while many others were injured and hospitalized.
    Paul Draus, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
  • One of these men told the pro-Palestinian marchers in a flood of words that God had brought nuclear war to Palestine.
    Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2023
  • In a video uploaded to YouTube by a marcher, the crowd encounters a group of Russian soldiers standing in the road.
    James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • How long before the marchers cross state and regional lines and impose their will on others?
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Attacks on peaceful marchers King is a major player in Kix’s book, but not the only one.
    Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2023
  • One supporter even swapped his shoes with a marcher, whose own pair had fallen apart because of the hot pavement.
    Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Instead, the marchers met with tear gas and clubs and killing and Kent State and an intensification of the Vietnam War.
    Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • As such, the marchers began hitting the pavement at Patriots Square Park.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2023
  • Han China's predecessor in the form of the Chin dynasty arose from a marcher state in the northwest, and the same was true of the previous ruling house, that of the Zhou.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2013
  • The joint picket ended with marchers spilling onto Van Ness Avenue.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • After being fired up by the speakers, hundreds of marchers made their way around the Capitol building.
    Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 20 Jan. 2024
  • According to news accounts, many of the marchers waved swastika flags and wore shirts emblazoned with quotes from Adolf Hitler.
    Mitchel Benson, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • On Wednesday, marchers gathered in towns and cities across France to express their final opposition to the bill.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • One after another, the floats and marchers that follow reveal what makes this town so charming.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2023
  • King, Abernathy, Shuttlesworth and at least 55 marchers were arrested.
    Deneen L. Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • When one marcher jumped on top of a military Humvee parked in front of the district attorney’s office, others in the crowd quickly condemned the action and made the man get down.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2020
  • Every handful of steps or so, a marcher nearby seemed to note that their social-media postings weren’t going through.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
  • Celebrities had flown to Alabama to form a human shield around the marchers, the idea being that surely no one would take a shot at Harry Belafonte.
    Michael Wilson, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • News photographs of the clash show a Patriot Front marcher pressing a shield against Murrell’s head, forcing it into a light post.
    Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • In Lebanon, pro-Palestinian marchers mingled with workers demanding an end to a miserable economic crisis.
    Mehmet Guzel and Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2024

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