(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.
Marcher
Definition:
(n.) The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Wednesday, the ire of the marchers was focused on all those Lib Dems who blithely signed the NUS's anti-fees pledge ("I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative" – yesterday, Nick Clegg limply said that he "should have been more careful" than to put his name to it).
(2) "I want to see double the number of marchers next year, and double that the year after.
(3) The government had taken few measures to protect the marchers; what security personnel were on hand contented themselves with teargassing the survivors.
(4) It always targets the poor," said Maria Koumoundourou, a retired bank employee as she joined the marchers.
(5) In Riga, a city with a majority of ethnic Russians, a small band of protesters heckled the marchers with calls such as: "Shame on you", "A disgrace" and "What is there to be proud of?"
(6) Beijing warns Hong Kong marchers not to challenge mainland rule Read more “The way the Chinese government treated him and the pain it inflicted on him and his family just for writing words and talking about democracy, all this proves he deserved the Nobel prize,” said Lui, 27, a graduate student.
(7) Back in June, after 20,000 people marched in Belfast in favour of equal marriage, I took part in a radio discussion with a representative of the Evangelical Alliance who evidently thought the fact that 170 countries in the world did not permit gay marriage (he repeated the figure often enough) trumped the marchers’ wishes.
(8) Massive demonstrations that overtook many Brazilian cities last June were initially sparked by a violent police crackdown on marchers calling for the reversal of a rise in public transport fares.
(9) After being forced to apologise for the mayhem two weeks ago when fewer than 250 police were unable to marshal a crowd of more than 50,000, Scotland Yard sent almost four times as many officers onto the streets and quickly penned marchers into a section of streets.
(10) I have lost my job as a machine operator in a paint manufacturing company because of this power cut,” said 54-year-old marcher Samuel Addo.
(11) The desperate attempts by the unionist parties to resist an effective code of conduct for marchers and protesters showed that very clearly.
(12) "I ask the marchers to understand this: I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour," he said.
(13) The overwhelming majority of marchers, Ed Miliband and the TUC included, had nothing whatever to do with smashing windows, throwing things at the police or behaving badly.
(14) The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, a few months after civil rights marchers were beaten and teargassed on the Selma to Montgomery March.
(15) The crowds gather at 10am – a sea of saffron flags held by millions of marchers dressed in white cotton, the colour of mourning.
(16) But marcher KC Wong, who was pushing a giant red monster he had constructed, with flashing eyes and the yellow stars of the Chinese flag, said: "It's not only CY Leung that people are unhappy with: he is a puppet; it is who is behind the puppet."
(17) Onlookers on the street seem a little bemused, but the marchers are getting thumbs-up and cheers from a few drivers.
(18) It's the ceremonial budget that marchers are hoping to burn in front of town hall.
(19) Outside the Madison police department, marchers chanted: “What’s his name?” They answered: “Tony Robinson”.
(20) Some marchers burned cars, smashed office windows and fought with riot police, leaving a £2m trail of destruction in London's most violent protests since local tax riots in 1990.