Example sentences for: paraded

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

  • Nearby is Ardastra Gardens, Zoo, and Conservation Centre, a landscaped park famed for its pink flamingos, which are paraded three times a day into a small enclosure to offer visitors a closer look.

  • Describing Indonesian military intervention in West Kalimantan, an Indonesian-controlled territory on the island of Borneo plagued by ethnic and religious conflict, the paper said that "armed mobs paraded the severed heads of their victims through villages" and that "the bridges in one town had been hung with the dismembered parts of the victims' bodies."

  • One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."

  • Pleased with my new knowledge, I paraded if before another old-timer, John Lester Brown, who caught me up short.

  • In Serbia, President Slobodan Milosevic sanctioned the removal in 1987 of the body of Serbian hero Czar Lazar, killed 600 years before by Turks at the Battle of Kosovo, so it could be paraded around Slovenia and Croatia in a display of Serb power.


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