Example sentences for: procession

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

  • In the street adjacent is a stone tablet commemorating a tragedy: During an Easter procession in 1844, the collapse of a wall killed 414 people.

  • The emperor would lead a procession from the palace to the altar here to perform the annual rites and sacrifices to heaven.

  • Lamego: Festivities honoring Nossa Senhora dos Remédios (annual pilgrimage to famous Baroque shrine, along with torchlight procession, folklore festival, fairs, and fireworks, culminating with triumphal procession).

  • A spit-and-polish cop waves the procession onward (the in-joke here is that it now seems headed toward the CNN building four blocks from the Capitol).

  • In Eleusis the sacred way led directly to the Sanctuary of Demeter and a large Temple of Artemis with a forecourt where the initiates would gather in preparation for the procession.


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