processional

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Recent Examples of processional Expect travel to be punctuated by memorable cultural experiences like processionals, traditional foods, and music, but destinations will be notably crowded and more expensive. Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2025 Two of the couple's mutual friends, AJ Rafael and Micah Hunter-Chang, played the wedding processional songs on keyboard and violin. Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025 The fragments were incorporated into a new processional cross that was specially made for the lavish religious ceremony in 2023 and was then gifted to the Church in Wales. Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025 Unexpected weather and a wedding processional mistake made one couple's wedding day all the more memorable. Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for processional
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Noun
  • At the end of the ceremony, Paris and Théo performed a galliard—a dance from the Renaissance era—as their recessional.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Students were still advised to maintain social distance before the recessional began.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2022
Noun
  • The pandemic interrupted the development of the oratorio, but its first iteration was performed in San Francisco and on Angel Island in 2021.
    Aimée Ts'ao, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2025
  • In 2017, with a grant from the Hewlett Foundation, the Del Sol String Quartet commissioned Huang to write an oratorio about Angel Island’s history based on the poems.
    Aimée Ts'ao, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2025

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