How to Use march in a Sentence

march

1 of 2 verb
  • When the mouths of wolves fall open, a script of corpses march.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • See lines of ants marching across your floor?
    — Charlotte Maracina, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Instead, on marched the field goal team.
    — Sam McDowell 4, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
  • How they were forcibly marched 400 miles south.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 June 2026
  • The Foot Guards then march past the king.
    — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 12 June 2026
  • Dad turned on his heels and marched us all back to the minivan.
    — Rachel Tepper Paley, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • Where are the clergy who once locked arms and marched for progress?
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026
  • Soon, a few hundred will march through the streets to the match.
    — Theo Lloyd-Hughes, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The Cougars got the ball to start and marched down the field and scored.
    — Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
  • One of the pictures shows the men marching through a field.
    — CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The two women marched as their children ran around them.
    — Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Nations march not as armies but as athletes.
    — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Large groups of them will march in formation.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • Thousands march across the bridge to light candles and pray.
    — Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Pahlavi urged them on and hundreds of thousands marched.
    — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • As the students marched, cars on the street honked to show support.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
  • He’s been marching a lot lately.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • After that, all that’s left to do is march the pan to the table and dig in.
    — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In both instances, stocks shrugged off any worries and marched to all-time highs.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Femi marched into the ring as Lesnar stared on in shock.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Sauron’s armies have marched across the whole of the world, conquering all in their path.
    — ArsTechnica, 25 July 2026
  • Anna is a free spirit who marches to the beat of her own drum.
    — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • That will comfort no one as the Dodgers march forward.
    — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Celtic have marched halfway back to another nine in a row.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • At that moment, my mother comes marching out of the doors.
    — Esther Yi, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • And so, the planets appear to march across the sky in a series of loops.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The students could be marching in the street holding signs and flags.
    — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Six planets will soon march across Idaho’s night sky.
    — Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The dusty Ohtani trudged to the dugout as if marching through a nightmare.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The toddler then marched around the house eating a dripping peach.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025

March

2 of 2 noun
  • Protest leaders counter-claimed that the march was peaceful, and no threats were made.
    — Hannah Grossman, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The march was organized on social media and drew a diverse crowd of old and young.
    — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2020
  • That much larger group needs to feel both the safety and the collective impact that comes with a mass march.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Scheidler believes the march helped bring about last year’s ruling to overturn Roe.
    — Michelle Boorstein and Justine McDaniel, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The last moment of day before darkness begins its long march toward morning.
    — Noah Davis, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2022
  • As long as some leafy growth is left behind the plant will continue its unceasing march toward taking over the whole herb bed.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 4 July 2020
  • The march ended at the steps of the Capitol, where marchers listened to multiple speeches.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The march welcomes everyone to support and uplift the voice of Black people.
    — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Leading the way in the march, Aztec dancers purified the air with incense made by burning the resin of the copal trees.
    — Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Because Palo Alto at that point has got a lot invested in stopping that march.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Giving up the moonshot dream marks another stage in the companies’ march into middle age.
    — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Kirke shared a photo of Badgley at the march before later deleting the snapshot.
    — Jacklyn Krol, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Over a stalwart march beat, with guitar chords like distant fanfares, a prisoner prays for redemption.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • In Japan, the fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31 of the following year.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Police held more than 50 people after the march, organizers said.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 26 June 2023
  • The crowd then began an hourlong march making a loop around to State Street and then back to Daley Plaza.
    — Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The crimes – like armed robbery and murder – that had sparked the march toward mass incarceration plummeted.
    — The Conversation, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In March 2019, Electric on the Eel opened in tenth place and then disappeared.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • When Khan took to the streets that summer to lead a long march against the government, Farooqi was thrust into the online spotlight.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The ‘78-79 season became a long, slow march to mediocrity under coach Bob Pulford.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Her six-hour procedure in March included a breast lift and augmentation, a tummy tuck and liposuction of the flanks.
    — Hedy Phillips, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The singer, who welcomed his first child, a daughter named Paris, in March 2024, is looking ahead with a new perspective on life.
    — Catherine Santino, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The best months to see aurora, statistically, are March and September.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Stallings was arrested in March, charged with the felony of injury to a child and processed through the county jail, where Walker was also booked on Wednesday.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Hours after joining the march, he was shot in the abdomen near Ayacucho’s airport, where protesters had gathered with some trying to take control of the runway.
    — Claudia Rebaza, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
  • That’s the day the farmworkers completed a repeat of their historic 1966 march from Delano to the Capitol.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Lower courts temporarily halted the March order; the government appealed.
    — Andrea Hsu, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The attack came less than a week after Khan began his march from Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, with thousands of supporters.
    — Munir Ahmed and Riazat Butt, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Rachele Massimi traveled with a group four hours from Rome Sunday morning to participate in the event, bringing her 3-year-old who watched the march from a stroller.
    — Colleen Barry, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Achane was the primary running back last season, but he was still handcuffed by Raheem Mostert, who signed with the Las Vegas Raiders in March.
    — Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025

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