MARCH in a Sentence

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238 example sentences for MARCH, such as:

1. He soon rose again and resumed his march.
2. The march was by the silent majority who oppose terrorism.
3. It is the state of a mind on the march that we are recording.
4. Over a thousand people braved the elements to attend the march.
5. The movement of a waltz is very different from that of a march.

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 Meanings and Examples of MARCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
march
 n.  the third month of the year, next after February
 v.  walk with a regular, especially forceful, step like a soldier
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He had already a little skin, and was able to march when the King of the Bulgarians gave battle to the King of the Abares.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In II
2  I have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
3  As they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; it is a whole solar system on the march.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
4  He soon rose again and resumed his march.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
5  He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
6  At half-past two, near the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
7  The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued its march.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
8  She took breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she was obliged to pause.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
9  That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the forest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
10  The first two or three times that he turned round he saw nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat reassured.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
11  It is necessary, for the sake of the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons of courage permanently on the heights.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN
12  He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
13  It is the state of a mind on the march that we are recording.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
14  One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind the other.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
15  Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, he could not halt there, he was irresistibly constrained to continue, to advance, to examine, to think, to march further.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Over a thousand people braved the elements to attend the march.
2  In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
3  The march will be heavily policed by an anti-riot unit.
4  A half million people watched the troops march in New York's ticker tape parade.
5  The march was by the silent majority who oppose terrorism.
6  The movement of a waltz is very different from that of a march.
7  Demonstrators nearly came to blows with the police during the march.
8  He was afraid another scholar was going to steal a march on him and publish first.
9  If its strategy succeeds, Mexico could even steal a march on its northern neighbour.
10  Wednesday's anniversary culminates in a recreation of the student march that started the Velvet Revolution.
11  African-American men from all over the United States will converge on Washington to take part in the historic Million Men march.
12  Wednesday's anniversary is to culminate in a recreation of the student march that started the Velvet Revolution.
13  In July, 1792, the united armies of Prussia and Austria commenced their march from the German fortresses upon the Rhine into France.
14  Casting a quick, oblique glance at the reviewing stand, the sergeant ordered the company to march.
15  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.