CEREMONY in a Sentence

Learn CEREMONY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
186 example sentences for CEREMONY, such as:
1. A crowd had collected to watch the ceremony.
2. They were married in a civil ceremony in May.
3. We were obligated to attend the opening ceremony.
4. Each element of the ceremony has a symbolic meaning.
5. The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CEREMONY
ceremony
 n.  any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way
 n.  the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion
Classic Sentence: (138 in 10 pages)
1  And without farther ceremony, she turned away and walked to the instrument.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
2  Proceeding into the Castle again, we found the Aged heating the poker, with expectant eyes, as a preliminary to the performance of this great nightly ceremony.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
3  Peggotty was resolved that it should be quietly done; and the clerk had given her away, and there had been no witnesses of the ceremony.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
4  When he came, my aunt performed the ceremony of introduction.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
5  Mr. Micawber took an early opportunity, after that, of hinting, with the utmost delicacy and ceremony, at the state of my affections.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
6  I felt myself quite a proctor when I read this document aloud with all possible ceremony, and set forth its provisions, any number of times, to those whom they concerned.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31. A GREATER LOSS
7  As to sleep, I had dreams of poverty in all sorts of shapes, but I seemed to dream without the previous ceremony of going to sleep.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
8  Peggotty is ready to go to church, intending to behold the ceremony from the gallery.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
9  There was never any ceremony about the visits of such old friends and neighbours as we were.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
10  Nothing special happened at the ceremony of benediction with the holy picture.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 2
11  At last, having duly performed the ceremony, having signed the rings with the cross, the priest handed Kitty the big ring, and Levin the little one.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 4
12  The talk was principally kept up by the men, while the women were absorbed in watching every detail of the ceremony, which always means so much to them.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 5
13  It was not merely the sisters, the women-friends and female relations of the bride who were following every detail of the ceremony.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 5
14  After the customary questions, whether they desired to enter upon matrimony, and whether they were pledged to anyone else, and their answers, which sounded strange to themselves, a new ceremony began.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 6
15  The feeling of triumph and radiant happiness flooded her soul more and more as the ceremony went on, and deprived her of all power of attention.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.
2  We were obligated to attend the opening ceremony.
3  The Prime Minister was received with all the traditional pomp and ceremony that is laid on for visiting heads of government.
4  She arrived at the airport without the pomp and ceremony that usually accompanies important politicians.
5  The ceremony was attended by many of the surviving veterans of World War II.
6  A crowd had collected to watch the ceremony.
7  I'm hopeful and confident that the graduation ceremony will really be a completely new tart.
8  I'm hopeful and confident that the graduation ceremony will really be a completely new start.
9  Today's award ceremony took place at the British Embassy in Tokyo.
10  The priest sanctified the church with a special ceremony.
11  They were married in a civil ceremony in May.
12  The first ceremony which we went into college is an impressive ceremony.
13  Each element of the ceremony has a symbolic meaning.
14  After the ceremony, the bride lifted up her veil to kiss her husband.
15  Our headmaster rattled on for at least two hours at the opening ceremony.