How to Use pageantry in a Sentence

pageantry

noun

• I like the tradition and pageantry that come with graduations.
• From there, the pageantry moves to the Chamber of Deputies.
  — Janine Henni, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
• There was a baseball game, a rock band, the lights, the pageantry.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2022
• The pageantry planned by the French, who showed first, ran upward of two hours.
  — Bridget Foley, Town & Country, 26 Apr. 2023
• Yet all this pageantry was the wheeze of a dying world.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• The Turtle Derby had all the pageantry of a horse race.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2022
• Biden, a Catholic, reveled in the pageantry of the Black Baptist church.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2023
• That and the show business aspect of it in which there’s a pageantry to it.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
• She was drawn to acting and the pageantry of the stage from an early age.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• Watch the ridiculous pageantry of wildlife right beyond the glass.
  — Cynthia D'aprix Sweeney, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Apr. 2021
• The athletes’ pauper lifestyles didn’t fit the pageantry of the event.
  — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
• In that way, the 10 days of pageantry was her final gift to her nation.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
• Others want to enjoy the pageantry of it all, one last time.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 4 June 2024
• In the midst of the decay of the old pageantry a future was being prepared.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• There is little precision or pageantry to the use of the bridge’s foghorns.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The book begins with the awkward pageantry of meeting the parents.
  — Jenny Wu, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
• Due to the star power, quality of the feud and pageantry of the cell, many fans felt Hell in a Cell should close the show.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
• After a long day of pageantry, the ruler hosted a banquet.
  — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• Gone, too, was the pageantry of a night on the town, when half the pleasure is wondering who might walk in.
  — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• The scenery of the stadium in Pasadena alone is enough to draw in viewers, and there's a pageantry that is unique to the game.
  — Kevin Skiver, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2024
• But the 1936 Games aren't remembered for Germany's medals or the Nazi pageantry.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 8 Dec. 2019
• Dignitaries flew in from around the world to witness the pageantry and regalia.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• But the joyousness and sense of humor in the food felt at odds with the pageantry surrounding it.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• Or the iconic pageantry surrounding the Run for the Roses?
  — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 23 Mar. 2022
• For all the pageantry on show in Sochi, Russia remains a bit player in Africa.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• But that pageantry appeared to wake up this sleeping giant with Davis at the helm.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2022
• The senior was also trying not to get caught up in the pageantry of senior night.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
• That sort of pageantry is just one way that the US and UK election campaigns differ.
  — Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2019
• Royal pageantry is to be on full display: The coffin is to be draped in a royal flag and scepter.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022
• The other would become the crown jewel of the parade’s unabashedly hokey pageantry: its collection of majestic balloons, beginning with a two-story Felix the Cat in 1927.
  — Michael Callahan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024