How to Use parade in a Sentence

parade

1 of 2 noun
  • The town will put on a parade.
  • After the team won the championship, the city threw a parade for them.
  • The marching band lined up for the homecoming parade.
  • And that might be worth its own parade.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
  • Take it easy and watch the parade go by.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 25 May 2026
  • There would have been no parade.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The parades are put on by Krewes.
    — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
  • But this parade is about more than music and food.
    — Ted Scouten, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Many of the runners stayed on to watch the parade.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2026
  • This looks like a case of parade envy.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • So don’t even think about raining on my parade.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Here's what to know about tuning in to the parade.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Well we wasn't allowed to go to those big parades and stuff.
    — Nichole Marks, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Here are some photos of this year’s parade.
    — John Autey, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
  • What’s the best way to watch parade of planets?
    — Nathaniel Levine, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Some plants just don’t check the fall color parade box.
    — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The parade’s queen will be announced at the event.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Are there other parades in the city?
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • A day of rides and a parade couldn’t get his mind off the bitter loss.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • There will also be an art show and a fursuit parade.
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • Hundreds more joined a brass band parade known as a second line.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The parade Sunday draws the largest crowd of the three-day event.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Bring baskets for the hunt and bonnets for the parade.
    — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Take a look at some of the sights of the parade along Ocean Drive.
    — Alie Skowronski, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2026
  • This pair were making wishes come true on the parade route.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • One of my favorite things about a planet parade?
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Anything less than a downtown parade is a waste?
    — Troy Renck The Denver Post, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Even before these new cuts, a parade of key staffers had left the Post.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The second is to slow our roll a bit here and not start planning parades just yet.
    — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Yet as the parade began, the marchers saw that this would not be a normal year.
    — Patrick Salland, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025

parade

2 of 2 verb
  • The team and its fans paraded down the street.
  • The models paraded up and down the runway.
  • She paraded around on the beach in her bikini.
  • The victors paraded the prisoners through the streets.
  • Protesters paraded in front of City Hall.
  • Don’t the judges just parade you around, then poke, prod and grope you?
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The drag queens who once paraded through the hallways are long gone.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • So much so that readers went out of their way to avoid parading them in public.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Speaking of the bare facts, feel free to parade around in your birthday suit.
    — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The pets who were parading weren’t limited to dogs.
    — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
  • Why not parade around in your underwear?
    — Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
  • Fifth, watch the school children parade through the art museums on their field trips.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Or see which politicians, in a chamber-full of camera hogs, preen and parade the most?
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
  • None of ‘the people’ want to see someone who hates them, parading around pretending to be us.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Nov. 2025
  • None of 'the people' want to see someone who hates them, parading around pretending to be us.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Nov. 2025
  • None of ‘the people’ want to see someone who hates them, parading around pretending to be us.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Gunmen killed civilians in the street and kidnapped hostages, in some cases parading them in the streets.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, elephants have been known to parade right through the lodge in search of the property's wild mango tree.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Every day at Straight’s house, friends and loved ones parade in and out, in person or in spirit.
    — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • He won’t be paraded out for visitors.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Let your team parade out all of the imaginary horrible things that your product can be used for.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • The girl Lo saw in cabin 10 is the same one who is now parading around as Anne.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Dress up your doggos and parade them through the streets in this fun holiday tradition.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Her Majesty paraded in a low-cut body clinging outfit which was held up by sheer willpower.
    — Joshua John Miller, Vanity Fair, 9 Apr. 2026
  • As the two paraded down the center of the venue, Del Rey was eager to show off her ring.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Soldiers took body parts as trophies and paraded them through the streets of Denver.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 20 May 2026
  • Onstage, Sedaka was cheeky at the piano and even more charming while parading around with dance moves.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Say hello, then go parade yourself right to bed to rest up for another exciting day on the road.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 12 Nov. 2023
  • In previous years, the dogs would parade through the streets, but their gentle paws were often scorched by the hot pavement.
    — ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Bands will play Tuesday, and floats sponsored by local krewes (social clubs) will parade down city streets.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023

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