The phrase "as processions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are comparing or describing something in relation to processions, often in a metaphorical or illustrative manner.
Example: "The crowd moved through the streets as processions of joy and celebration filled the air."
Alternatives: "like parades" or "in the manner of processions".
Despite more than 500 years of Roman Catholicism, local practices have been restricted largely to baptism and a few rites, such as processions and funerals.
Tiara, in Roman Catholicism, a triple crown worn by the pope or carried in front of him, used at some nonliturgical functions such as processions.
But as processions of coffins bearing some of the dead wound through a devout neighborhood of Istanbul on Thursday, accompanied by thousands of Turkish mourners, public anger in Turkey seemed undiminished.
For the past 45 minutes, my boyfriend, Chris, and I had stood watching as processions of hooded monks carrying candles and banners painted with the images of saints come down the steps of the town's 15th-century castle.
Rock paintings, which were done with ingredients like eland blood and egg white, depict elephants, eland and other animals as well as processions of hunters and other scenes of daily life.
Addresses by foreign heads of state and minor, daily ceremonies such as processions by the speakers of the House of Commons and the Lords would also have to be considered.
As at the Louvre, it is a place for display as well as procession: four monumental Ming Dynasty figures are set into the stairway, triumphantly punctuating the space and pulling us upward.
And what remains of a broad boulevard known as Procession Street is now barely discernible--as a narrow dirt path overgrown with weeds.
The university was not seeking to prevent protest processions as long as they had permission under the Public Order Act.
Indeed, it was not so much a battle as a procession as the Knicks beat the Nets by a 30-point margin.
They were intensively advertised by such promotions as torchlight processions in the streets.
