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Example sentences for: aggrandizements

How can you use “aggrandizements” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

This she did unblushingly, though both `accident' and `pinch' were retrospective aggrandizements, her hands having been quite deliberately slammed in a car door, twice each.”
Someone ought to blush, because whatever they are, they are not aggrandizements, “things made to appear greater.”
“ Retrogressive aggrandizements,” maybe, but that's an oxymoron of another colour entirely.