: one that marches
especially
: one that marches for a specific cause
a peace marcher
Examples of marcher in a Sentence
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Ron Elving, NPR, 18 May 2024
Past conventions have seen scores of protesters and marchers descend on the area surrounding the convention, some of the protests ending without much disruption and others punctuated by bursts of vandalism, violence or mass arrests.
—Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2024
How long before the marchers cross state and regional lines and impose their will on others?
—Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2024
There, marchers hoisted signs, gathered to hear speeches and surrounded a lawn with several dozen white cloth bundles that resembled child-sized burial shrouds, representing young people killed in Gaza.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
In Lebanon, pro-Palestinian marchers mingled with workers demanding an end to a miserable economic crisis.
—Mehmet Guzel and Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2024
After being fired up by the speakers, hundreds of marchers made their way around the Capitol building.
—Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 20 Jan. 2024
Campus police initially estimated that about 1,000 protesters were on campus but raised that figure to 2,500 after the marchers reached the west side of campus.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
Rather than marking a single death, the marchers — led by trumpet players and people carrying a casket reminiscent of a cigarette pack — were demanding the demise of menthol cigarettes.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
Noun
Yet McCloskey stood in front of the Capitol to address throngs of angry young anti-war marchers in October of 1969.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 18 May 2024
Past conventions have seen scores of protesters and marchers descend on the area surrounding the convention, some of the protests ending without much disruption and others punctuated by bursts of vandalism, violence or mass arrests.
—Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2024
How long before the marchers cross state and regional lines and impose their will on others?
—Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2024
There, marchers hoisted signs, gathered to hear speeches and surrounded a lawn with several dozen white cloth bundles that resembled child-sized burial shrouds, representing young people killed in Gaza.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
In Lebanon, pro-Palestinian marchers mingled with workers demanding an end to a miserable economic crisis.
—Mehmet Guzel and Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2024
After being fired up by the speakers, hundreds of marchers made their way around the Capitol building.
—Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 20 Jan. 2024
Campus police initially estimated that about 1,000 protesters were on campus but raised that figure to 2,500 after the marchers reached the west side of campus.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
Rather than marking a single death, the marchers — led by trumpet players and people carrying a casket reminiscent of a cigarette pack — were demanding the demise of menthol cigarettes.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
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“Marcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marcher. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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