Example sentences for: pageant

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

  • This clunky mistaken-identity comedy about escaped cons who impersonate gay pageant directors doesn't even make sense on its own low farcical terms; it's mostly one lame homo joke after another.

  • 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.

  • Also, an article on an Alabama children's beauty pageant: Contestants' parents believe that beauty will catapult their children from the working class.

  • Animal-rights groups want to get rid of Santa's reindeer: Pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals forced the National Park Service to remove reindeer from their annual Mall Christmas pageant.

  • Room 20: Gentile Bellini breathes little life into the grand pageant of his Procession on San Marco (1496), but it remains one of the museum’s most fascinating “photographs” of Renaissance Venice.


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