Sentence examples for marched from inspiring English sources

The word "marched" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are describing an organized procession or an orderly movement by a group of people, typically done in protest or in a military-style. Example: The protestors marched through the city center carrying signs and chanting slogans.

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marched

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Past of march

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He marched alongside Arthur Scargill during the difficult days of opposition to pit closures and the miners' strike of 1984, but was ready to admit privately to his doubts about Scargill's controversial leadership of the National Union of Mineworkers.

Afterwards MPs marched outside parliament chanting that they were prepared to die for their prophet.

Tens of thousands marched in demonstrations across Mexico last week to express outrage at the attacks and register their indignation that the targets were students from poor rural families for whom becoming teachers is possibly the only route to advancement.

"They piled everything on the floor, all my clothes, bedding, everything I owned, then just marched out".

The fury spilled out on to the streets in June when tens of thousands marched through the capital in outrage over the appointment of Delyan Peevski, a well-connected media mogul, as head of the State Agency for National Security.

Muslim and anti-fascist groups questioned the prime minister's judgment and sensitivity to the issues, saying he had handed a propaganda coup to the hard-right English Defence League as 3,000 of its supporters marched through Luton chanting anti-Islamic slogans.

The protest, during which students marched around central London to the sound of chanting and a heavy drum beat, comes as higher education staff and cleaners prepare for a series of strikes beginning tomorrow.

Leung Kwok-hung, chair of the left-leaning political party League of Social Democrats, marched as he reiterated the protesters' main demands: that Hong Kong's chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, resign, and that the government scrap Beijing's highly restrictive electoral framework for the city's next chief executive election in 2017.

About 1,500 more reportedly rallied in Gold Medal Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and marched across town, led by protesters carrying a coffin.

Protesters in the nation's capital blocked a major street as they marched peacefully through downtown DC and Chinatown, where some burned American flags.

After perhaps half an hour, the teenagers marched off to find another target and his parents emerged from the storeroom where they had been hiding.

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