(n.) A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beyond that, MSNBC devotes three hours each morning to a show hosted by a former rightwing GOP congressman and his cavalcade of vapid "centrist" establishment journalists such as Mark Halperin (then again, Fox features the idiosyncratic and unpredictable Shepard Smith each night).
(2) After the ceremony on Thursday, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will tour central Madrid in a motor cavalcade – a somewhat risky venture given the strength of republican sentiment that has emerged since the abdication was announced.
(3) It's a cavalcade of the bizarre that might leave lesser storytellers struggling for clarity.
(4) He was followed after the cavalcade by numbers of heavily armed members of the ALN (National Liberation Army) and unfortunately many freelance supporters in no uniform, but carrying, like the traditional rebels, revolvers and hand grenades in their belts.
(5) Host cities are disrupted for days or even weeks.The cavalcades roll into town, good intentions are shared in productive talks.
(6) Although the chancellor will spend barely six hours in the country, her presence has resulted in frogmen patrolling the seas, snipers guarding rooftops and an estimated 7,000 policemen, including elite riot units, securing the boulevards on which her cavalcade will pass.
(7) Leaders regularly cock a snook at democratic niceties in staying in power and many seem largely out of touch with their people's needs, behind their high walls and blue-light security cavalcades.
(8) As his cavalcade drove up to the interview venue, girls leaned out of the window and screamed as if they had seen a rock star.
(9) "Obviously it's very different from a general election so while everybody who voted yes is delighted, there are no street celebrations going on, no car cavalcades or anything like that."
(10) And if it was OK to discuss it – being gay, cross-dressing, waxing and waning libido, abortion, the evils of child abuse and violent marriages, the taboos of incest or underage sex, the huge technicolour cavalcade of being human – then the loneliness of a desperate problem was mitigated.
(11) Photographed shopping in a local supermarket before his election, he prefers to travel by train or car, with his cavalcade even respecting red lights, whereas Sarkozy favoured jets.
(12) If the casting is confirmed and Cumberbatch makes the trip to New Zealand, where filming is currently taking place, he will join a cavalcade of UK talent on the project.
(13) The approach brought peaceful, exuberant scenes on Thursday, with cavalcades of honking horns, but a small riot marred Friday’s peaceful protests – and left Johnson facing criticism that his officers had stood by as business were ransacked.
(14) He swept into a side entrance in a police cavalcade under flashing blue lights, avoiding most of the hundreds of onlookers including family members of Mladic's alleged victims and Serbian nationalist supporters of the war crimes suspect.
(15) The danger of a lack of transparency in fundraising is written in corruption allegations across contemporary Europe, a shameful cavalcade that may soon be joined by Nicolas Sarkozy .
(16) What do you get when you combine Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, Doc Rivers, the Donald Sterling Media Circus, the second best Reggie Jackson in sports history and a cavalcade of rich and famous people lining up to buy Los Angeles's other NBA team?
(17) Alongside the highway near the town of Ventersburg, at a rural settlement not yet reached by post-apartheid development, a knot of villagers had clustered: they were dancing and singing and clapping, and with the help of one or two vuvuzelas, cheering on the flag-festooned cavalcade of luxury cars ferrying well-heeled supporters down to the game.
(18) At a function at the Royal United Services Institute, a few yards from Downing Street, this month, his cavalcade, complete with motorcycle outriders, looked almost presidential; it is a comparison not lost on the Russian authorities who have charged him with plotting a coup against the Putin regime, or at least setting himself and some of his fellow exiles up as an opposition in waiting.
(19) Expectations are high.” A cavalcade of motorbikes and cars with their headlights on and horns blaring paraded through the streets of Kano, northern Nigeria’s biggest city, AFP reported.
(20) Circling a packed peninsula lined with scores of snazzy hotels and designer boutiques, the beaches will be buzzing from January to March, perpetually topped up by a cavalcade of South America's rich and famous.
Convoy
Definition:
(v. t.) To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.
(n.) The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.
(n.) A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.
(n.) A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance.
(n.) Conveyance; means of transportation.
(n.) A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a suicide car bomber targeting a foreign forces convoy along the airport road,” Farid Afzali, chief of the city’s police investigation department, told AFP.
(2) A number of countries and groups have accused Syria and Russia of war crimes in connection with attacks on medical facilities and aid convoys.
(3) For US allies, trying to follow Washington’s lead over the past four months has been akin to trying to drive in convoy behind a car swerving violently at high speed, as the competing factions inside lunge for the steering wheel.
(4) We would be prevented from doing so; we are prevented from doing so.” Describing the situation as agonising, she said: “Whether you are a Syrian NGO [non-governmental organisation] on the frontline in eastern Aleppo being bombed into oblivion, or a UN worker sitting in Damascus or accompanying convoys across conflict lines, we are all really taking risks and being mentally pummelled by some of the positions in which we are put.” The deteriorating situation in Syria and continual bombardment of eastern Aleppo has raised the political stakes to new heights in recent days, with Russia being directly and repeatedly accused of war crimes because of its support for Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.
(5) The Americans went first, a great convoy of armoured Jeeps snaking out from their fortified embassy under air cover.
(6) But both sides have alleged dozens of violations and aid convoys have been unable to enter rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo – a key opposition demand.
(7) The students went missing on 26 September after a convoy of buses they were travelling on came under fire .
(8) Its loss would be a major blow to Ukraine and would also allow the rebels to receive large cargo planes with supplies in addition to truck convoys from Russia .
(9) Sometimes in Khartoum, you see long convoys of blacked-out 4x4s, full of game hunters from the Gulf, drive through the centre of the city and disappear into the countryside, returning only to snake their way back to the airport.
(10) The UN said on Friday the Syrian government had effectively stopped aid convoys this month and Aleppo was close to running out of fuel, making a successful truce even more urgent.
(11) A convoy of Ukrainian APCs marked the new frontier of the rebel-controlled territory.
(12) Seleznyov also said a convoy of more than 60 military trucks was spotted Saturday heading from Feodosia toward Simferopol, the regional capital.
(13) They say they will allow an aid convoy to go but then still don’t give us the green light.
(14) Yesterday he set out to Tahrir from Heliopolis across the city in a convoy of vehicles, a "car march".
(15) A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are aware of reports of the death of a British national in Iraq and are looking into them.” Authorities in Iraq said Ahmed died when he drove a truck into a convoy, killing a top Iraqi police officer, Lt Gen Faisal Malik Zamel, who was inspecting forces in the town, and seven other police officers.
(16) The man opened fire on Anja Niedringhaus and Kathy Gannon from the Associated Press in a police headquarters in Khost province, after the women arrived with a convoy of election materials on Friday.
(17) Manning did not cheer, because he was aware that five civilian Iraqis had also been caught up in the bombing, after they had pulled over their car to let the convoy pass.
(18) 5.06pm GMT Associated Press journalists in Crimea have spotted a convoy of nine Russian armored personnel carriers and a truck on a road between the port city of Sevastopol and the regional capital, Sinferopol, the news agency reports: The Russian tricolor flags were painted on the vehicles, which were parked on the side of the road near the town of Bakhchisarai, apparently because one of them had mechanical problems.
(19) Some casualties were accidentally caused by air strikes, but many also are said to involve British troops firing on unarmed drivers or motorcyclists who come "too close" to convoys or patrols.
(20) The so-called Arctic convoys are credited with helping to tip the balance against the Nazis.