Sentence examples similar to parade step from inspiring English sources

And whose job is it to make sure that the parade steps off each year?

As the parade stepped off at 10, there were torrential rains to the west and south, forcing cars to pull off highways, threatening havoc.

Over here!" Indeed, there was only one oft-heard complaint: the feet-stomping, finger-numbing weather, with the mercury at 27 degrees as the parade stepped off.

When that same parade steps off at noon today, its ranks will include the first lady of the United States and the mayor of New York, and it will count among its sponsors United Airlines and Budweiser.

At Central Park West and 77th Street, the parade stepped off at 9 a.m. with a police motorcycle escort and a helium-stuffed tom turkey called Jake, who had not made an appearance since 1959.

In truth, the city's Hispanic population is far more complex than it was when the first Puerto Rican Day parade stepped off in East Harlem in 1958, with Mr. Badillo in its ranks.

For 25 years, the parade stepped off on the first Saturday in March, a day the parade organizers settled on to accommodate bagpipers and bands with other commitments closer to March 17. Bill Coughlin, a spokesman for the parade committee, said the performers would be unavailable on a weekday.

Indeed, there was a touch of winter in the crisp November air, but an awning of blue hung over the city and the traffic lights were cherry, lemon and lime as the parade stepped out of the cartoon life, a kaleidoscope of Sesame Street, Schulz, Pokémon, Nickelodeon, Broadway and pumpkin-and-turkey icons.

When that same parade steps off at noon today, this time onto Fifth Avenue, its ranks will include some of the same gay men and lesbians who were there that first day, many of whom went on to create the nation's first post-Stonewall gay liberation groups, the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance.

Moments later, the parade stepped off through Valley City, a town of about 6,500.

In reality it was a shuffle much more than a march, there were simply too many people to take those nice long-stride parade steps which could properly be termed a march.