Example sentences for: grandeur

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

  • A profile of Andrew Cuomo argues that he has brought his father Mario's brand of liberal zeal and moral grandeur to his post as secretary of housing and urban development.

  • That's either a delusion of grandeur or an elevation of your own desire for satisfaction above the recipients' need for food.

  • Vestiges of the village’s former grandeur can still be traced along the front, where grand old buildings jostle uncomfortably with high-rise blocks.

  • Louis XIII had hoped to turn his favorite hunting ground into a modest retirement home, but his son and heir made it the center of a universe, proclaiming his own grandeur in an edifice of brick, marble, gilt, and crystal.

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


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