How to Use pageant in a Sentence

pageant

noun
  • They disagreed with the pageant judges.
  • Their church puts on an annual Christmas pageant.
  • Fight for our grades, fight for a role, fight to win a pageant.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2022
  • She was not kicked off the show but did not advance to the pageant.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • The 2012 pageant would prove to be her year.
    — Shawn Raymundo, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The ladies host a pageant to help pass the time at Monique’s lake house.
    — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The moms were starting to arrive at the school for the pageant.
    — Rachel Bloom, Glamour, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Do dogs even care about beauty-pageant success?
    — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Sewing my costumes, making my evening gowns for pageants.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 26 Feb. 2026
  • But the pageant answers not our prayers, but the prayers of others.
    — David Mamet, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • My wife is a hall of fame Hooters girl and used to do the pageants.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
  • The pageant has changed, albeit more slowly than many would have liked.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Dec. 2021
  • This Fourth of July, the pageant will be loud.
    — Otis Moss Iii, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • But her father, who is 49, sat next to her boyfriend at the pageant.
    — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • This is the first time the pageant will be held in Miami.
    — Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Ecker, who has been competing in pageants since the age of nine.
    — Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Hashwi has competed in pageants for a few years.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • These were the fugitives who flee Jerusalem toward the start of the pageant.
    — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
  • The pageant opened its stages to both married women and mothers.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This also marked her first time competing in any pageant.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Half-pageant answer, half-real?
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
  • There will be live music, and the day will begin with a parade and end with a pageant.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Hudson was named second runner-up, but the two left the pageant hand-in-hand.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 15 May 2025
  • The pageant refuted his claims in a statement.
    — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
  • While the pageant itself seemed to go off without a hitch, the leadup was not quite as smooth.
    — NBC News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The plot centers around a small-town beauty pageant and the great, vile lengths people will go to win.
    — Patricia Garcia, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2021
  • So, Bevere concluded that was the end of the line for her pageant ideals.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • After the pageant is over, the piggies will be returned to the students to take home and keep.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
  • Other pageant hopefuls stood up to follow Bosch, as seen in the livestream feed.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • When is the Miss USA 2025 pageant?
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 21 Oct. 2025

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