Example sentences for: parading

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

  • Now it serves as a minipark for habaneros (as Havana’s citizens are called), from coupling lovers and children playing on homemade skateboards to parading prostitutes.

  • The Wu-Tang Clan has entered the "stagnant hip-hop scene like a slap in the face, parading its strikingly original gutter funk like a ghetto peacock" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the group's eclectic influences--including funk, flamenco, and psychedelic--and its lyrics, "as dense, obsessed, prolific and full of popular and arcane references as a Pynchon novel" (Neil Strauss, the New York Times ). (Clips are available here.)

  • The picture reportedly ended with a shot of black smoke coming out of the stack--but we'll never know because The Day the Clown Cried was judged too obscene to be released, and Lewis went back to parading doomed kids across the TV screen in telethons, while Americans goggled at his stamina, and senators nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Curse John - In 1774 Philip Fithian was reminiscing in his diary about his undergraduate days at Princeton when “they often practised mischief by parading bad women and burning Curse John.”

  • "I do not believe the possible recon value outweighs the risk of possible program termination when the stakes are raised by the Taliban parading a charred Predator in front of CNN," he wrote.


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