Example Sentences

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Lieutenant Scheisskopf, who had not yet made his reputation as a parader, shuddered violently at the picture Major Major would make marching barefoot in his squadron that coming Sunday.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

This captain of whom I speak was a padded shape—shirker from the front line—a parader of his uniform before women.

From The Day of the Beast by Grey, Zane

Every individual parader in the procession wore a somber black arm-band.

From Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings by Donnell, Annie Hamilton

"When do we reach the reviewing stand?" asked a parader, named Joe Smith, of a man marching beside him.

From The Centralia Conspiracy by Chaplin, Ralph