Sentence examples for a pageant of flags from inspiring English sources

In April 2005, amid a pageant of flags and cabinet ministers in Washington, John Fitzpatrick, the director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, announced that an ivory-billed woodpecker had been spotted for the first time in more than half a century in an Arkansas swamp.

Thousands of people drove back to the church Sunday evening for a pageant of prayers, songs, a flag ceremony and an American history quiz pitting kids against their parents.

From the restaurant, it seemed a pageant of Iraq's wider drama, with the grim-faced resistance men looking out at the Americans driving by with flags fluttering from radio antennas, helmeted soldiers with wraparound goggles at their turrets, machine-gunners swiveling, watching for trouble.

We are watching a pageant of disaster.

The Republican primaries are a pageant of clowns.

It's incoherent, a pageant of Taymore imagery".

Monday was pure emotion, expressed through a pageant of families.

The funeral was a pageant of pomp and excess.

Once a pageant of fan-fluttering formality, their play is now a provocation.

Alfred Dreyfus, the French officer whose court martial was a pageant of anti-Semitism, was married there.

Soviet listeners would have expected a pageant of triumph after the struggle.