PROCESSION in a Sentence

Learn PROCESSION 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.
339 example sentences for PROCESSION, such as:
1. The procession moved into the church.
2. It really did look like a procession.
3. A funeral procession filled the street.
4. The procession passed along the street.
5. They came in flocks to see the procession.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PROCESSION
procession
 n.  the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
 n.  the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
Classic Sentence: (171 in 12 pages)
1  It sounded as if things were coming with a great procession and big bursts and wafts of music.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  The Rajah did not object to his staying and so the procession was formed.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  It really did look like a procession.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  It was a procession which moved slowly but with dignity.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  Tom's heartbreak vanished and he joined the procession, not because he would not a thousand times rather go anywhere else, but because an awful, unaccountable fascination drew him on.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  WE slept most all day, and started out at night, a little ways behind a monstrous long raft that was as long going by as a procession.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
8  Why, we could work with a torchlight procession if we wanted to, I believe.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
9  "The canopy which is to be borne over your Majesty, in the procession, is waiting," announced the chief master of the ceremonies.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
10  The Councillor stood still, and watched a most strange procession pass by.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
11  The principal person in the procession was a priest.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
12  de Boville had indeed met the funeral procession which was taking Valentine to her last home on earth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise.
13  The pompous procession therefore wended its way towards Pere-la-Chaise from the Faubourg Saint-Honore.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise.
14  More than fifty private carriages followed the twenty mourning-coaches, and behind them more than five hundred persons joined in the procession on foot.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise.
15  Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing-room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, who rouged and powdered in an invisible glass.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (168 in 12 pages)
1  The festivities started with a procession through the town.
2  The procession moved into the church.
3  Congress could ban the procession altogether.
4  We've had an endless procession of new secretaries through the office since Amy left.
5  They came in flocks to see the procession.
6  The procession passed along the street.
7  A funeral procession filled the street.
8  Defeated, Queen Zenobia was forced to abase herself before the conquering Romans, who made her march in chains before the emperor in the procession celebrating his triumph.
9  The procession moved along the main avenue some three-quarters of a mile, and then groups and couples began to slip aside into branch avenues, fly along the dismal corridors, and take each other by surprise at points where the corridors joined again.
10  When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and looked at her, and the Queen said severely "Who is this?"
11  The procession moved along the main avenue some three-quarters of a mile.
12  Smoking and drinking interfere with your body's ability to process oxygen.
13  The administration is in the process of drawing up a peace plan.
14  There was total agreement to start the peace process as soon as possible.
15  The rehearsal process also irked him increasingly.