Sentence examples for float bearing from inspiring English sources

A dragon-shaped float bearing waving dignitaries and sequined musicians rolled past small houses, modest churches and weathered storefronts.

Next came a float bearing a mechanised lion against "a background of a smart city", according to the announcer.

The sight of young men of color pushing a parade float bearing white musicians in Quebec prompts accusations of systemic racial insensitivity.

A float bearing a statue of the Virgin Mary, crowned with a halo of gold and decorated with white flowers, was loaded onto one of the craft.

Beauty pageant winners waved, sirens blared, children blew bubbles and a float bearing Confederate flags trundled by, along with an SUV decorated with campaign signs for Republicans and a trailer plastered with banners for Democrats.

As if all that wasn't enough, at one point Goodman appears dressed as a giant sperm, surrounded by sperm minions, all following a carnival float bearing an effigy of the New Orleans mayor masturbating.

There were sororities and fraternities, floats advertising radio stations, and many -- some spectators said too many -- floats bearing the names of big companies: Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola, Pepsi.

In Seville especially, the streets are thronged with penitentially robed, conical-hatted nazarenos, and ceremonial floats bearing candles and statues of the crucified Christ and the Virgin Mary.

Despite lingering fears of new attacks, attendance was comparable to past years, with about two million spectators lining the parade route to watch the column of balloons, marching bands and floats bearing celebrities.

I CRAVE a front row seat at passing spectacles, be it the Carnival dance parade called Ra Ra in the streets of Haiti, the parade-pilgrimage of El Rocio in Andalusia, Spain, where women in ruffled skirts ride in ox carts with men in bolero jackets, or the Halloween parade through Greenwich Village with floats bearing the ice cream moguls Ben and Jerry in cow costumes.

For now, all we can do is track the progress of the speculation balloon that Bill has floated – bearing in mind all the while the Clintons' proven powers of political resurrection.