Before dawn on the third day, the funeral procession (ekphora) formed to carry the body to its resting place.

A black procession was flowing up each aisle and forming to stately music in a pool in front of him.

The procession of water-fetchers had formed itself in a long chattering line that stretched river-wards.

This was the moment when, sometimes, a procession formed and they would march off to take action.

The little procession thus formed went through the gate and across the flagged path through the churchyard.

An academic procession forms a usual part of college and university graduation exercises.

About 2000 formed a procession to take their demands to the Governor.

This provided the necessary space in which the processions could form and disperse unseen by the crowds.

Three funeral processions were forming, every face and gesture a living evocation of "Ulysses."

A procession formed to lay hands upon the dead, but it quickly broke down as the mourners began wailing and rubbing the caskets.