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Example sentences for: pageant

How can you use “pageant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The dining room has a magnificent cedarwood coffered ceiling from a Bologna monastery, and is decorated with the flags from the Sienna palio pageant.
In the pageant, Moses is costumed to display horns.
If News Quiz responses are any guide to popular taste--a ludicrous proposition, but play along--the two most greedy and lustful and savage realms are backstage at the Miss America pageant and inside Pat Buchanan's head.
At the same time, however, the Miss America pageant stiffened up its terminology so as to avoid calling the event a beauty contest, or the girls gorgeous.
Increasing literacy and pressures towards `correctness' led in England to spelling-pronunciations which caused speakers to restore a whole range of sounds which earlier generations had dropped, like the l in fault, vault, and soldier; the second w in awkward and the sole w in Edward; the t at the end of pageant, respect, and strict; and the d in the middle of the word London and at the end of husband.