(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.
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.