cortege

How to use cortege in a sentence

• He described a steady stream of funeral corteges on the Long Island Expressway.

  The Leader of New York’s “City of the Dead” Cashes In. Again. | by Carson Kessler | July 25, 2022 | ProPublica

• One of his most traumatic moments as a child, Harry said, was when he followed his mother’s horse-drawn casket in a public funeral cortege at age 12, passing by throngs of onlookers, many of them openly sobbing — and staring at him.

  Prince Harry tells Oprah Winfrey of his excessive drinking and drug use — and says the royal family made him ‘suffer’ as a child | William Booth | May 21, 2021 | Washington Post

• A policeman stopped traffic on Palmetto for the cortege and second line to pass, and in a better street, people broke out dancing.

  Mardi Gras Indian Chief Larry Bannock’s Final Ride | Jason Berry | May 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

• He said they planned to turn their backs on the funeral cortege as it passed them.

  London’s Sober Goodbye to Margaret Thatcher | Jamie Dettmer | April 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

• The funeral cortege will be made up of over 700 troops, drawn from regiments closely associated with the Falklands War.

  Full Details of Plans for Thatcher’s Funeral on Wednesday | Tom Sykes | April 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST