Parader

Diehl and Batiste are a singularly astute pairing: Mr. Diehl, a classical scholar, makes serious music sound like fun, while Mr. Batiste, a party-hearty New Orleans street parader, reminds us that fun music can also be serious. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

A parader in a car tossed candy on the asphalt and she lunged at it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Kingmaker in the civic politics of the Fourth Ward, parader with infant ghouls and vampires on Halloween, soup kitchen volunteer; Rosa Elisabetta, institution. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What think you, my dear, of compromising with your friends, by rejecting both men, and encouraging my parader? — ❋ Unknown (2006)

Every individual parader in the procession wore a somber black arm-band. ❋ Annie Hamilton Donnell (N/A)

Among the festive decorations that made the corporate home of Dink and the Tennessee Shad a place to visit and admire was, as has been related, a smashing poster of a ballet dancer in the costume of an amazon parader. ❋ Owen Johnson (1915)

This captain of whom I speak was a padded shape -- shirker from the front line -- a parader of his uniform before women. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)

-- What think you, my dear, of compromising with your friends, by rejecting both men, and encouraging my parader? ❋ Samuel Richardson (1725)

"Boy, he's just got those moves," auctioneer Phil Musser, from the Keweenaw Economic Development Alliance, said of parader Philip Johnson, president at Finlandia University, drawing laughs across the room. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Old man weather, no friend of the Easter parader, was expected to come up with some fair skies but with cold temperatures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

John Harwood, a parader, also thinks he knows who the mystery homeowner is, "I saw his diploma on the wall, so it's definite." ❋ Unknown (2009)

In Detroit, where the September unemployment rate was 17.3 percent, parader organizers set up three locations where revelers could drop off donations of canned food for the area food bank. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Le petit Chose en profite pour aller parader au soleil, sur l’esplanade, et se montrer à ses compatriotes. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)

Look, there goes the [McDonald] [float] down the parade [route]. ❋ OpFox07 (2010)

Dude, I just thought of the best way to [paradize] [Simon and Garfunkel's] "[The Boxer]" ❋ Comedian Jon-O (2009)

I dare you to take a shot of captain followed by [tequila] followed by [whiskey] that's one sick [parade] ❋ Wildchild84 (2010)

Girls with dogs [walk down] street. D-Tang (to girl 1): What is this, a fucking parade? Girl 1: Fuck You! D-Tang: [Fuck your mother]! Girl 1: You're a monster. (Girls [flee] running with dogs in hand and crying) ❋ Diego P (2006)

Dude [did you] see that [parade] of a [movie] ❋ Psnd (2018)

Indians don't have a [parade] on thanksgiving, so should [the rest of us] put an end to the parades? Would that somehow right all the [wrongs] that have been done in this country? ❋ Solid Mantis (2020)

Indians don't have a [parade] on thanksgiving, so should the rest of us put an end to the parades? Would that somehow right all the [wrongs] that have been done in this country? If there really was a better way to treat each other, wouldn't people have thought of it and done it before now? [What good] has hope ever done anybody? Hope is for the hopeless. ❋ Solid Mantis (2020)

Indians don't have a [parade] on thanksgiving, so should the rest of us put an end to the parades? Would that somehow right all the [wrongs] that have been done in this country? If there really was a better way to treat each other, wouldn't people have thought of it and done it before now? [What good] has hope ever done anybody? Hope is for (and by) the hopeless. ❋ Solid Mantis (2020)

1. "I [would've] gotten here faster, but there was a meatball parade at the traffic [intersection]!" 2. "Check out that meatball parade outside of that [donut shop]." ❋ Not_an_alien (2015)

"[Walk on] through a red parade and refuse to [make amends], It cuts deep through our ground and makes us forget all common sense. Don't speak as I try to leave 'cause we both know what we'll choose, If you pull then I'll push [too deep] and I'll fall right back to you." ❋ Trinity2828 (2013)