Sentence examples for pageant started from inspiring English sources

In 1964, when the Miss Gottschee pageant started, there was no shortage of contestants.

Then the heraldic pageant started -- 30 seconds of monophonic theme music from a spaghetti western about the Crusades.

Miss Pennsylvania, Sheena Monnin, claimed last week that one of the other competitors told her she'd seen the lists of the Top 5 finalists before NBC's Sunday broadcast of the beauty pageant started; she claims the women who were named did turn out to be the Top 5 finalists.

The pageant started as a local bathing suit revue in Long Beach, California, organized by a swimwear company.

"They gave us all a heads up, it was also very close to the pageant starting & very brief.

Get to know the lovely "ladies" of the 2013 Miss'D America Pageant, starting with the inimitable Miss Ivy Profen!

Even the pageant has started to change, gradually.

The Atlantic City-based pageant, which started in 1921 and has been broadcast live for more than 40 years, has recently been losing viewership.

By the time the pageant actually started, we were all rather frazzled and tired from the efforts of memorization.

Four years later, the Mr. Nitro pageant has started to catch on, and Wednesday's auction alone raised $200 for the Associated Student Body, Yolyan said.

Somewhat ironically, the first event that would evolve into an "American style" child beauty pageant actually started in a Commonwealth country.