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• The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.From the entry thin
• Some skeptics have attributed changing temperatures to forces out of our control, such as axial procession.From the entry force
• A recessional hymn is sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.From the entry recessional
• A group of clowns headed the procession.From the entry head
• In Italy, Holocaust commemorations included a torch-lighted procession and official statements from top political leaders.2024 January 27, Czarek Sokolowski, “Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance…. From the entry torch-lighted
• By Shakespearean I mean there was a blend of pageantry, procession, music and mystery.2023 May 7, Michael Billington, “The Coronation review – immaculately rehearsed, touching and Shakespearean”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Shakespearean
• Water carriers are sprinkling water ahead of the procession to settle the dust.2021, Bazm-i Aaskhir, translated by Ather Farouqui, The Last Gathering: A Vivid Portrait of Life in the Red Fort, page 32 & 61. From the entry nalki
• Dionysus was accompanied by a joyful, winedrunk procession of Satyrs, Silens and maenads.2018 May 1, Jan Bouzek, Studies of Homeric Greece, Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, →ISBN, page 241. From the entry winedrunk
• There were three main processions which were led by a cross bearer.2014 April 18, Andrew Bloss, “Crucifixion re-enacted in Croydon on Good Friday”, in Your Local Guardian, UK, retrieved 28 Oct 2015. From the entry cross bearer
• FAIRY RADES: Another favored fairy activity is the rade, or ride, a procession of fairies on horseback.2009 November, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Fairies, page 54. From the entry rade
• The procession was heading toward Chumulangma, the most distant of the six mountains.2000, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, chapter 22, in Wheelers (Fiction), Warner Books, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 463. From the entry Chumulangma
• This was in demand for ceremonies such as marriage processions etc.1992, Anil Ranjan Biswas, Calcutta and Calcuttans from Dihi to Megalopolis, page 361. From the entry chowpal
• I recognize a frameful of typewriter parts put together to resemble a procession of cripples.1968, Madelaine Duke, The Lethal Innocents, page 13. From the entry frameful
• Let all the genarians pass in review — The procession will last but a minute or two.1955, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Sundown; Later and Earlier Selected Poems, page 71. From the entry genarian
• There are processions led by dancers with castanets and accompanied by musicians playing the Kène.1951, Norman Lewis, A Dragon Apparent, Eland, published 2003, page 296. From the entry khene
• They organize a series of revels culminating in a grand procession and collection this afternoon.1949 April, The Texas Outlook, volume 33, number 4, page 4. From the entry rag week
• It is a solemn sight always—a procession, like a caravanserai crossing a desert.1938, Virginia Woolf, “Part Two”, in Three Guineas, London: The Hogarth Press, […], →OCLC, page 111. From the entry caravanserai
• Escorted by the local soldiery we moved slowly in procession into Yangi Hissar.1926, C. P. Skrine, Chinese Central Asia, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52. From the entry Yangi Hissar
• The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.1921, Mary Grant Bruce, chapter 8, in Back to Billabong. From the entry aswing
• Is the above a sly way of starting a procession of unmarried printeresses toward the Sun office?1919 January 30, The Border Sentinel, volume 31, number 33, Mound City, Kan.. From the entry printeress
• Yea, the police procession of technical units, of Red Cross and Y.1918 July 27, “Appraising the Americans: The Wild Shouts, the Rush of the Cars As a Tonic for Paris”, in Concordia Daily Blade, volume…. From the entry secretaryess
• Some of them, like the pensils and bandrols, were used in funeral processions.1900, James Balfour Paul, Heraldry in Relation to Scottish History and Art: Being the Rhind Lectures on Archaeology for 1898, page 132. From the entry bandrol
• The band that leads the procession wears red-and-green sherwanis.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 40. From the entry sherwani
• I recall a bevy of queenlettes, all besashed and bathing suited, observing the procession having already traversed the route.2020 June 10, Jerome Christenson, “A drum, horses and a parade”, in La Crosse Tribune, volume 117, number 26, La Crosse, Wis., page B3…. From the entry besashed
• But one temple – located Tung-hsiao Township, Miaoli County -- has no set schedule or destination for its Matsu procession.2018 December 31, Paula Chao, “God of Earth welcomes the Matsu pilgrimage in person?”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the…. From the entry pilgrimage
• This procession is slow and unclimactic, utterly mesmerizing and like everything else about this astounding work, absolutely right.2008 February 16, Roslyn Sulcas, “Two Immortal Lovers Have a Rematch in Paris”, in New York Times. From the entry unclimactic
• This strange procession marched through the streets of Weihui, a town in Henan, central China, on November 4.2008 November 12, “Scandal in China: soldiers work for butchery”, in France 24, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2021. From the entry Weihui
• The procession began, and the celebrants filed into the temple patio to dance the Dance of the Serpent.1997, Thomas Andrew Bailey, David M. Kennedy, The American Spirit: To 1877, page 12. From the entry celebrant
• The mournful melisma accompanied the slow procession to the palace built by Herod the Great, at present untenanted.1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked. From the entry melisma
• He was clearly just another part of the women's procession.1985 August 10, Kate Raisz, “The Gay Mushes”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 5, page 10. From the entry muxe
• At Peking's Kunming Lake, processions of people swam between lines of crowded, flag‐bedecked boats accompanied by martial music on loudspeakers.1974 July 17 [1974 July 16], “Chinese Take to Water To Mark Mao's Swim”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Kunming Lake
• Impressive processions and sacred hymns, banners, crucifices, and assaults upon the Jews heightened the effect of his impassioned appeals.1907, George Frederick Abbott, Israel in Europe, page 152. From the entry crucifices
• An organist wigged out like Rick Wakeman, the diamante lapels of Humza Yousaf’s kilt jacket sparkled, and out in the Mall, the procession began.2023 May 6, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian. From the entry wig out
• The word itself, from Greek, means "an unsitting prayer ” ; that is, it is traditionally prayed while standing, or while moving in procession.2023, Donald Sheehan, Xenia Sheehan, In the House of My Pilgrimage. From the entry unsitting
• El Rocio, which takes place in Almonte, Huelva, in the province of Andalucia, involves a procession that includes people walking, riders on horseback and carts.2023 May 30, Adam Crafton, Guillermo Rai, Peter Rutzler, “PSG cancel fundraising event with Sergio Rico still in hospital after horse and…. From the entry Andalucia
• So, anyway, seeing the procession of young women with lighted phones in a darkened stairwell reminded me of all those bugia bearers bearing bugias.2014, William C. Graham, “Bugia Bearers for the New Age”, in 100 Days Closer to Christ, Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry bugia

Meaning of procession

1. noun The act of progressing or proceeding.
2. noun A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
3. noun A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).

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Questions about procession in a sentence

How do you use procession in a sentence?

Procession is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.”

What is a short sentence with procession?

“a procession of mourners”

What does procession mean?

Procession means the act of progressing or proceeding.