Example sentences for: grandeur

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

  • English fastened upon foreign words with gusto, transforming and anglicizing them to lend grandeur and subtlety to the vernacular.

  • There was a time, back in the '60s, when psychiatry appeared to loom over vulnerable minds with a kind of menacing grandeur.

  • A piece claims that the House Flytrap proceedings lack the solemnity of Watergate--they have "all the grandeur of Ft.

  • Local master artist Tintoretto (1518–1594) won a competition to create for the hall some 50 paintings (the largest collection of his work anywhere) over a period of 23 years, a series comparable in grandeur to Giotto’s frescoes in Padua’s Scrovegni Chapel or Florence’s Brancacci chapel by Masaccio.

  • Gotti has even tarnished the mob's Coppolaesque grandeur: the piece mocks his car (a minivan), his attire (mock turtlenecks), and choice of repast (country-fried steak).


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