PROCESSION in a Sentence

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"The canopy which is to be borne over your Majesty, in the procession, is waiting," announced the chief master of the ceremonies.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROCESSION
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procession
 n.  a line of people who are all walking or travelling in the same direction, as part of a ceremony
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)
16  Informal interaction among employees is seen as part of the ongoing training process.
17  He is more didactic in his approach to the learning process.
18  Conventional economic and accounting theory tends to assume that the process involved is highly rational and orderly.
19  Most criminal cases are therefore settled without trial by the process of plea bargaining between the prosecutor and the defense attorney.
20  It was their intent to micromanage the issues, to become part of the process.
21  More needs to be done to simplify the process of registering to vote.
22  Losing weight is a slow, gradual process.
23  The whole process makes buying a car privately as painless as buying from a garage.
24  There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
25  The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
26  The interplay between the new politics and the modern media will unbalance the political process and inhibit its workings.
27  Taking responsibility for yourself is part of the process of growing up.
28  This is the latest attempt to break the logjam in the peace process.
29  The process by which malignant cancer cells multiply isn't fully understood.
30  This enables the healing process to continue uninterrupted.