Sentence examples for recessional from inspiring English sources
The word 'recessional' is correct and usable in written English
'Recessional' is an adjective that describes something that pertains to or is used during a recess, or a period of temporary withdrawal or retreat. An example of the word 'recessional' in a sentence could be: "After the ceremony, the bridal party followed the recessional route to exit the church."
noun
Music played during a church recession.
Rudyard Kipling had mourned the already visible (to him at least) fading of British imperial power in his hugely popular "Recessional".
That much he could predict, but he could not foresee that, within the century after he wrote "Recessional", every scrap of the European empires that bestrode the world of 1900 would be gone.Kipling assumed that the United States would acquire an empire, but it did not not, at least, an empire of the kind he was used to.
This article traces the development over time of humanity's perception of the universe, from prehistoric observations of the night sky to modern calculations on the recessional velocity of galaxies.
It was also Hubble who interpreted and quantified Slipher's results on the large recessional velocities of galaxies they correspond to a general overall expansion of the universe.
This generalization became the basis for what is called Hubble's law, which correlates the recessional velocity of a galaxy with its distance from Earth.
The people pay homage to the patron saint in an early morning mass and a procession to the plaza carrying the saint's image, followed in the evening by a recessional to the church.
As such, neighbouring pieces of matter have recessional (or contractional) phases when they separate from (or approach) one another with an apparent velocity that increases linearly with increasing distance.
Written in 1899 or 1900, it shows the strong influence of Kipling's famous "Recessional" of 1897, but has some distinct touches of its own: "The silence of a mighty fleet/Portends the tumult yet to be./The tables of the evening meal/Are spread amid the great machines".
JUST as business travellers emerge blinking into the sunlight of a post-recessional world comes news of one group still making special efforts to reduce travelling costs.
The story is a scaffold for processionals, recessionals and dances, a potent alternation of solemnity and joy.
On April 29, the day of the wedding, JoAnn Gregoli, an owner of Elegant Occasions, a New York event-planning company, heard from three prospective brides who wanted trees at their ceremonies, too, while several others who had been planning for an organ now wanted multiple trumpets to blow a fanfare for their respective recessionals.
