How to Use pageantry in a Sentence

pageantry

noun

• I like the tradition and pageantry that come with graduations.
• There was a baseball game, a rock band, the lights, the pageantry.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2022
• The pageantry planned by the French, who showed first, ran upward of two hours.
  — Bridget Foley, Town & Country, 26 Apr. 2023
• The Turtle Derby had all the pageantry of a horse race.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2022
• Biden, a Catholic, reveled in the pageantry of the Black Baptist church.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2023
• That and the show business aspect of it in which there’s a pageantry to it.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
• She was drawn to acting and the pageantry of the stage from an early age.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• Watch the ridiculous pageantry of wildlife right beyond the glass.
  — Cynthia D'aprix Sweeney, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Apr. 2021
• In that way, the 10 days of pageantry was her final gift to her nation.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
• Others want to enjoy the pageantry of it all, one last time.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 4 June 2024
• In the midst of the decay of the old pageantry a future was being prepared.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• There is little precision or pageantry to the use of the bridge’s foghorns.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The book begins with the awkward pageantry of meeting the parents.
  — Jenny Wu, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
• After a long day of pageantry, the ruler hosted a banquet.
  — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• Gone, too, was the pageantry of a night on the town, when half the pleasure is wondering who might walk in.
  — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• The scenery of the stadium in Pasadena alone is enough to draw in viewers, and there's a pageantry that is unique to the game.
  — Kevin Skiver, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2024
• Dignitaries flew in from around the world to witness the pageantry and regalia.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• But the joyousness and sense of humor in the food felt at odds with the pageantry surrounding it.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• Or the iconic pageantry surrounding the Run for the Roses?
  — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 23 Mar. 2022
• But that pageantry appeared to wake up this sleeping giant with Davis at the helm.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2022
• The senior was also trying not to get caught up in the pageantry of senior night.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
• Royal pageantry is to be on full display: The coffin is to be draped in a royal flag and scepter.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022
• Baker’s final full day at the State House was full of hugs, pageantry, and photos, many of them with Democrats.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• So enjoy the games and the great young players and the pageantry that is such a major part of this state’s football fabric.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
• Keep up with the pre-race pageantry and news updates, as well as racing action, right here.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2021
• The Oscars can be a bridge, too, between the pageantry of the awards and the sincere recognition felt by those honored.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2022
• As part of the pageantry, the show invites celebrities to join the GameDay panel for interviews and picks for the day’s games.
  — Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal, 18 Sep. 2020
• After the dust has settled on the pageantry of the weekend, would LIV revisit the Boston area?
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• Dion’s ballad capped off a night of pageantry dosed with some frustration.
  — Sean Gregory/paris, TIME, 27 July 2024
• Every two years, the eyes of the world turn to these Olympic Opening and Closing ceremonies for spectacles of national feeling and global togetherness played out across stadium-sized pageantry.
  — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 27 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024