Example sentences for: procession

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

  • In many U.S. cities Día de los Muertos ritual celebrations have become community affairs that include more than the Chicano community and may entail a procession through the streets ending at a local school or community center.

  • 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.

  • Every year the school organized a Las Posadas procession through the streets of Tucson.

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

  • I suppose that Miss Lonelyhearts should count as West's masterpiece, due to the fantastic procession of importuning advice-hounds that traipses across its pages--a procession of battered wives, crippled cuckolded husbands, syphilitic children, rape victims, and deformed teen-agers whose sufferings could break your heart--except that West's demeanor makes the whole thing slightly funny, as in a sick joke.


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