How to Use pageantry in a Sentence

pageantry

noun
  • I like the tradition and pageantry that come with graduations.
  • Once again, she was hooked on pageantry.
    — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • There was a baseball game, a rock band, the lights, the pageantry.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2022
  • In the end, though, all that pageantry can only smooth over so much.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Expect each of these to be swathed in pageantry—but not much more than that.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 7 May 2026
  • Crisman used to spend a week in the host city, soaking in the pomp and pageantry.
    — Patrick Whittle, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • That bit of empty pageantry means more to them than anything.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 6 June 2018
  • Pomp and pageantry help avoid questions neither side wants asked.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Watch the ridiculous pageantry of wildlife right beyond the glass.
    — Cynthia D'aprix Sweeney, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Apr. 2021
  • She was drawn to acting and the pageantry of the stage from an early age.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • That and the show business aspect of it in which there’s a pageantry to it.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The pageantry planned by the French, who showed first, ran upward of two hours.
    — Bridget Foley, Town & Country, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Wrestlers ranging from 5 years old to adults swirled all around, adding to the pomp and pageantry.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 2 Jan. 2026
  • One of the important things in war always is the pageantry of war.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The cheers were muted as the State of the Union pageantry kicked off.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • There is little precision or pageantry to the use of the bridge’s foghorns.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • In that way, the 10 days of pageantry was her final gift to her nation.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
  • But pageantry matters to the Chinese.
    — Jennifer Pak, NPR, 15 May 2026
  • The athletes’ pauper lifestyles didn’t fit the pageantry of the event.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
  • But the pageantry’s momentum now seemed to be driving, very fast, to the past.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The evening was defined by pageantry, knockouts and upsets.
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 15 June 2026
  • To be there last year and all the pageantry that comes with it, the flyovers and everything.
    — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2019
  • In the midst of the decay of the old pageantry a future was being prepared.
    — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Trump is in London for a three day state visit, a trip marked by both pageantry and protests.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 4 June 2019
  • The senior was also trying not to get caught up in the pageantry of senior night.
    — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The $70 million, four-day, open-air event was filled with pageantry and fireworks.
    — Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2019
  • Dignitaries flew in from around the world to witness the pageantry and regalia.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • But that pageantry appeared to wake up this sleeping giant with Davis at the helm.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The book begins with the awkward pageantry of meeting the parents.
    — Jenny Wu, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Gone, too, was the pageantry of a night on the town, when half the pleasure is wondering who might walk in.
    — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021

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