How to Use motorcade in a Sentence

motorcade

noun
  • In the cold, the schoolgirls line up along the front of the main building and wait for his motorcade.
    Solmaz Sharif, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Kennedy saw the crowd and briefly stopped the motorcade to shake hands with some of the onlookers.
    Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2022
  • At the center of the motorcade is a long, dark sedan glistening in the bright sun.
    CBS News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The motorcade snaked through the Back Bay and into Cambridge.
    Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Mourners lined the roadway and deeply bowed as the motorcade passed by.
    Joohee Cho, ABC News, 12 July 2022
  • The actor drove a press van in the motorcade, according to the White House press pool.
    Paul Leblanc, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Thais used to lie on the ground when a royal motorcade drove past; now some turn their backs or jeer.
    Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
  • As soon as his motorcade left a swarm of people rushed to the street, filling it up again to see him off.
    Anmar Khalil, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2021
  • There’s a scene at the end of it where a helicopter fires missiles at a motorcade.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The two dogs were seen on the South Lawn before the first lady's motorcade left Wednesday.
    Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Within two weeks, the first motorcade rolled through the city last Father’s Day.
    Washington Post, 20 June 2021
  • In the Bahamas, the city of Nassau had a motorcade and an honorary banquet.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2022
  • He was brought to court in an eight vehicle motorcade as locals lined the streets to get a look at him.
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 11 May 2021
  • After that fraught first moment, the queen and Dukakis took a motorcade cruise up Hanover Street in a black Cadillac.
    Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Around three-fifteen, a motorcade pulled up to the courthouse and the former President ducked through the door.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The Benz motorcade dropped them off at Gleneagles, less than an hour away.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 29 May 2023
  • Coty Feith, 27, was too far away to see Biden get off the helicopter and walk arm and arm with Pelosi to the motorcade.
    Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Trump departed in the motorcade just before 6:15 p.m. and did not stop to speak to reporters.
    Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • No, but police may stop traffic when the motorcade drives through.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • As her motorcade wound its way into the city, a heavy rain drenched onlookers and forced the staff to cover the lectern in a plastic tarp.
    Stephen Castle, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2022
  • At least once, Mr. Adams used his motorcade to pick up Ms. Suggs en route to a fund-raiser.
    William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Earlier, one of my colleagues in the press pool saw a father and son run alongside the motorcade to catch a glimpse.
    Noah Bierman Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Trump’s motorcade was seen on video driving slowly down the street as large crowds of people cheered and waved signs.
    Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 20 Jan. 2021
  • On a trip to Illinois, her motorcade sped toward the airport as if there weren’t a second to waste.
    Jonathan Van Meter, Vogue, 29 June 2021
  • Biden was quickly ushered to an SUV joined by a motorcade.
    Amanda Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • As Biden’s motorcade pulled away after the event wrapped, a tiny smattering of cheers sounded from the crowd.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
  • The first lady and the governor embraced on the tarmac, and the president and Green walked arm in arm to the waiting motorcade.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • As his small motorcade approached a side entrance to the Vatican, the Ford stopped and Francis got out with the help of a bodyguard.
    Fox News, 14 July 2021
  • The clip begins showing a motorcade escorting the Wylers to a black-tie affair.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The sheriff’s office deferred any questions about the motorcade to the United States Secret Service.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024

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