What's the difference between cortege and lackey?

Cortege


Definition:

  • (n.) A train of attendants; a procession.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was five when taken on a dark winter morning to see George VI’s funeral cortege pass by.
  • (2) People flocked to a crematorium where a private cremation will be held for a final glimpse of the cortege.
  • (3) Belaïd's death was described in his cortege as a new type of political murder.
  • (4) It was the day of the funeral of Jimmy Reid – the firebrand union leader who had kept the docks open by occupying them in the 1970s – and Ed joined the dockworkers who lined the streets as the cortege passed.
  • (5) I have few recollections of Thatcher after the slowly chauffeured, weepy Downing Street cortege.
  • (6) At noon, the cortege is due to leave the University of Leicester, where the archaeologists and academics have studied and guarded the monarch’s mortal remains since they were excavated from a council car park in August 2012.
  • (7) A factory was turned into a chapel today for the funeral of the Segway scooter owner Jimi Heselden, whose hundreds of workers lined the goods delivery bay and staff car park as his cortege arrived draped in flowers.
  • (8) The protest was led by a group dressed in black suits and masks and carrying umbrellas and briefcases to represent financial speculators, acting as the head of a funeral cortege mourning the death of Europe.
  • (9) This past Thursday, when Senator Kennedy's funeral cortege wound the 90 miles from the family compound on Cape Cod up to Boston, it made its way through a landscape littered with memorials to his siblings, his parents and his grandparents: Lt Joseph P Kennedy Jr Memorial School; the Kennedy Federal Building; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway (which is built over the old John F Fitzgerald expressway); the Robert Kennedy School; the JFK Presidential Library.
  • (10) As the funeral cortege made its way up Seville Place, flanked by five garda motorbike outriders, a train on the railway bridge over the street suddenly halted while thousands all around clapped and cheered.
  • (11) When recently his remains were brought home from New York for reburial, a military honour guard met the cortege and he was given a hero’s funeral.
  • (12) Even as her funeral procession wound through London streets some faced the cortege and bowed their heads in respect; others turned their backs.
  • (13) According to the Times of India newspaper, the funeral cortege took three hours to cover the five miles to the river from their ancestral home because of the crowds.
  • (14) Maclean is to be found in Eastwood cemetery in Glasgow's southern suburbs, where he was taken in 1923 with a crowd of thousands following the cortege.
  • (15) There was gentle clapping as the cortege, with police motorcycle escort, drove slowly through cordoned-off streets.
  • (16) When we reflect on Bieber's Louis Vuitton embossed, Lamborghini cortege it is easy to equate addiction with indulgence and immorality.
  • (17) Recently, I was travelling to visit my sick mother in hospital and they closed the road for an hour because Putin's cortege was taking him somewhere to drink tea with someone.
  • (18) Undeterred by heavy rain, about 100,000 people lined a 15km (nine-mile) route through the city-state to catch a glimpse of the funeral cortege.
  • (19) After he fled the capital, Yanukovych said, "bandits" had opened fire on his cortege, injuring one of his security officers.
  • (20) Three shootings over the weekend included the killing of a mourner at the wake for an earlier gun crime victim, whose cortege had been given a police escort amid fears of trouble.

Lackey


Definition:

  • (v.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
  • (v. t.) To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.
  • (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 1.20am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 3, top of the 4th Lackey gets ahead of Freese 1-2, if he could work around the error it would be- Freese takes strike three!
  • (2) thuringiensis towards brown-tail moth, as compared to its action on lackey moth, may be due to the bactericidal properties of some intestine microorganisms of brown-tail moth, and also the absence in their intestines of microorganisms stimulating growth of the entomopathogenic bacteria.
  • (3) Levine would not approve; Kanoti would delay the biopsy for several months to explore alternatives and leave time for reflection; and Lackey would approve based on the volunteer's knowledge and acceptance of his loss of function and his desire to find some way to participate in his wife's treatment.
  • (4) 3.26am GMT Pitching change John Lackey is in for his first postseason relief appearance in 11 years.
  • (5) John Lackey is back out, probably getting sick of this run support b.s.. Jon Jay hits a tricky flyball that Ellsbury can track down for out one.
  • (6) Various organisms of the intestine microflora of lackey moth display bacteriostatic action towards Bac.
  • (7) Lackey gets Freese in an 0-2 hole, and strikes him out with a 1-2 curveball for out number two.
  • (8) Rays 3 - Red Sox 5, top of the 5th And this is a game again, James Loney drives in both baserunners by hitting an old school Lackey pitch for a double!
  • (9) The media guide proclaimed Lackey as part of Three Aces along with homegrown left-hander Jon Lester and 2007 ALCS MVP Josh Beckett.
  • (10) In the second (and final) series of Grandma's House last year, the career of "the character" Simon Amstell couldn't even get a gig presenting his aunt's local charity quiz; his only chance of going to America was as his semi-boyfriend's lackey.
  • (11) 2.07am BST Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 4th And John Lackey is backey for the fourth.
  • (12) John Lackey would have to pitch well enough to make fans forget that he was very recently the most hated athlete in Boston .
  • (13) @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 1.49am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 6, top of the 5th Jon Jay is up, it's important for Lackey to keep that 1-0 game mentality going here.
  • (14) On Lackey's first inning: Nick Holden (@nick4glengate) @HunterFelt In cricket, we'd call that "bowling to his field".
  • (15) Thankfully for Lackey, Jon Jay pops up and Molina can't score on the out.
  • (16) Richie (@richiemetsoh) @HunterFelt "Pedroia playing deep shallow" #mccarverwatch October 31, 2013 12.55am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 3rd Lackey isn't fooling Matt Carpenter though, who wisely jumps ahead and assumes a strike and knocks a single.
  • (17) This time Lackey gets him to swing and miss and just look bad on strike three.
  • (18) If a commitment to the impossibility of objective reporting means that any position, however bizarre, is no better or worse than any other, the ultimate effect, which may be the intended one, is to suggest that all media organisations are equally untrustworthy – and to elevate any journalistic errors by the BBC or New York Times into indisputable signs they are lackeys of their own governments.
  • (19) 3.15am BST Pitching change Lackey is out, Breslow is in.
  • (20) Still, obstacles such as spoken-for jersey numbers have never seemed to deter determined athletes, and we’ve since learned that Lackey was happy to pony up for his favorite digits.