pomp

in a sentence

At which point, the Count closed the door and locked the Bishop into that room where pomp bides its time.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

was a fate akin—more or less—to death; hence the pomp and spectacle of the arrangements, the grim sense of ceremony, as if Kitsey were some lost princess of Ur to be feasted and decked in finery and — attended by tambourine players and handmaidens — paraded down in splendor to the Underworld.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

Ben and Radar both had a marathon band practice to make sure they would rock "Pomp and Circumstance" at graduation.†  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

So did his teachers at the seminary, who deemed him too playful and impatient with pomp and procedure; they delayed his ordination.†  (source) Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey, 2006

Indeed it was—Sir William Bradshaw's motor car; low, powerful, grey with plain initials' interlocked on the panel, as if the pomps of heraldry were incongruous, this man being the ghostly helper, the priest of science; and, as the motor car was grey, so to match its sober suavity, grey furs, silver grey rugs were heaped in it, to keep her ladyship warm while she waited.†  (source) Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 1925

And as she appraised it with its adjuncts of Turtons and Burtons, the train accompanied her sentences, "pomper, pomper," the train half asleep, going nowhere in particular and with no passenger of importance in any of its carriages, the branch-line train, lost on a low embankment between dull fields.†  (source) E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

It was generally assumed that she thought herself too good to work like the rest of the women and that Tea Cake "pomped her up tuh dat."†  (source) Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937

Maybe one day I'll get a net, make me a rat to pomp up my own hair.†  (source) Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

"We'll all renounce the devil," he said, "together, not forgetting his works and pomps."†  (source) James Joyce, Dubliners, 1914

"Pomper, pomper, pomper," was the sound that the wheels made as they trundled over the bridge, moving very slowly.†  (source) E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

So dey pomped him up.†  (source) Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937

The disarray of the queendom didn't lend itself to pomp and circumstance, so Alyss kept her coronation ceremony short and to the point.†  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

and though among the holy pomps of the Romish faith, white is specially employed in the celebration of the Passion of our Lord;†  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851