March-past Definition

March-past Sentence Examples

• He dedicated it to Field-Marshall Radetsky, and it later became the march-past of a crack Austrian cavalry corps named the Radetsky Hussars.

• The protest will march past a couple of war profiteers in the city.

• When the Emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began a ceremonial march past him, and Rostov on Bedouin, recently purchased from Denisov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron--that is, alone and in full view of the Emperor.

• He delayed supporting the infantry till too late, and was repulsed; he allowed the royal army to march past his outposts; and a fortnight afterwards, without any attempt to prevent it, and greatly to Cromwell's vexation, permitted the moving of the king's artillery and the relief of Donnington Castle by Prince Rupert.