(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.
Retinue
Definition:
(n.) The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Gary Neville, Hodgson’s former No2, will not be returning to the England fold the FA is keen to involve promising coaches and former internationals – Rio Ferdinand, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard have been mentioned – in the backroom retinue.
(2) On the way back from the showers, I almost walked into a small retinue of reporters.
(3) Players may have ever-expanding retinues – coaches, fitness trainers, sports psychologists, masseurs, agents and managers – but ultimately they have to do the job alone, out there in the gladiatorial setting of a packed tennis court with only their thoughts for company.
(4) The Conservative grandees were backed up by a retinue of more-or-less loyal historians.
(5) In fairness to Ms Williams, as we picture her hovering over our deathbeds with a retinue of homophobic cherubim, she does not conceal, as an evangelical activist, that her zeal has its origins somewhere far beyond the reach of reason and humankindness.
(6) The foreign minister thinks that the 2010 Smolensk air crash, in which President Lech Kaczyński and all his retinue perished, was a murder planned by President Putin.
(7) To possess one is, however, a mark of high status, just as many slaves or a large retinue of servants always has been.
(8) And that when the time has come for the celebs to have an audience with the grand old man, she has invariably stood alongside, meeting them not as the hired help but, acknowledged with all due deference for what she is, as a member of Mandela's innermost retinue.
(9) Rather than regard Kim Jong-un as a puppet, we might look at him as a youthful monarch surrounded by a retinue of close aides, advisors and gatekeepers that controls what briefing and policy papers he reads, who he talks to on the telephone and who is allowed access to him.
(10) "The majority of cardinals arrived with large retinues," Marcó said.
(11) He may even manage to hang on for a time by surrounding himself with a retinue of loyalists and retreads, among them the former Tory spin doctor turned Labour MP Shaun Woodward.
(12) He did lots of experimental student drama, and in 1988 he and a friend took a show - Grace, a poignant comedy about a diva's retinue - to the Edinburgh Festival.
(13) Instead they got a small island to themselves in the heart of the Canadian wilderness, leaving their retinue and protection officers behind and having just a chef, nesting bald eagles and the Canadian national bird, the loon, for company.
(14) But the combination of the eccentric courts and their retinues, with an insatiable and still more intrusive media, has made that role ever more difficult to perform.
(15) Nkurunziza's Haleluya retinue stays in a luxury hotel that he had built close to the stadium.
(16) A nursemaid - albeit with a whole retinue of staff to cover for the thrice-weekly lunch dates - to a husband who had long ceased to recognise her, and a campaigner on Alzheimer’s disease.
(17) In the novel the devil and his retinue (which includes a wall-eyed loon and a talking cat) manipulate “the Master”, a writer, and Margarita, his muse.
(18) The retinue channels what he decides to communicate through written documents, public speeches and interactions with low-level officials.
(19) "Saying that she is not here to preach is bullshit," said one of the small retinue of Berlin-based journalists who follow her every move.
(20) The plumose papillae and their retinue of plume cells are unique morphological structures that may be important in mastication and deglutition of food.