Example sentences for: parade

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

  • Was he at the street corner all along, watching the pretentious parade go by?

  • The portrait captures a fraught moment in Degas' career, when he had lost interest in the witty chronicle of modern life he'd pursued with such brilliance for 20 years--the parade of shopgirls and laundresses and jockeys and prostitutes that had made him famous.

  • It was not mentioned in Raymond Pace Alexander's piece how he worked in the 1950s to try to desegregate Girard College (he failed) and how he tried to get the Mummers in their annual parade to stop using blackface makeup (he failed there, too).

  • Connoisseurs wait for the set pieces: the colorful parade of the courtesan, a poignant seppuku suicide, the exciting fight scenes, and — summit of the art of kabuki — the end of a love affair that the heroine must break off, perhaps to save her lover’s honor, but never because she no longer loves him.

  • Don't crap on my parade! shouts a student activist in my earshot, decrying defecation instead of precipitation.


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