Sentence examples for leading a procession from inspiring English sources

A white-haired, frail-looking 77- year-old woman is pushed down a hallway in a wheelchair, leading a procession of five other women.

In the 6th century St. Gregory I, leading a procession to pray for the end to a plague, allegedly had a vision of the archangel Michael atop the tomb.

Calvin Sims (NYT) PAKISTAN: OUSTED LEADER'S ALLIES HELD The police arrested dozens of supporters of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Punjab province in an effort to prevent his wife, Kulsoom Nawaz, from leading a procession from Lahore to Peshawar.

The 15th month of the ceremonial year Panquetzaliztli ("Feast of the Flags of Precious Feathers") was dedicated to Huitzilopochtli and to his lieutenant Paynal ("He Who Hastens," so named because the priest who impersonated him ran while leading a procession around the city).

When rioting erupted in Harlem and other parts of the country during the summer of 1967, Monsignor Fox was credited with helping to keep things quiet in East Harlem by leading a procession of more than 1,000 people through the streets, singing hymns and passing out flowers.

In "Grande Jatte" (not in this show), for instance, the largest figures in the painting, a man and woman dressed in their Sunday best, stand rigidly like figures leading a procession near the right edge of the canvas, surveying a dreamlike tableau of adults, children and their pets in what appears to be arrested motion.

She manages to sweep through the lobby as if she were leading a royal procession.

Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves," with "Ava Wrestles the Alligator" leading a crazy procession of nine other Florida swampland stories, won her wide acclaim, and last year she was chosen one of The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" top fiction writers.

As the intro of the song begins, Gaga is shown leading a funeral procession, carrying the Sacred Heart on a pillow.

It's been my life's work to investigate light's spiritual and phenomenological qualities, whether I am meditating in the caves of the Himalayas, leading a quiet procession of luminous dancers at a farm at sunset or crafting immersive, vertiginous encounters with the art material of human consciousness in a Las Vegas nightclub.

This has been celebrated with an effigy of the Goddess leading an annual procession up the Tor.