Example sentences for: grandeur

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

  • For all its historic grandeur, the loyal Senate now is the equivalent of a city council, its statesmanship dedicated to water supplies, sewage lines, and the establishment of playgrounds.

  • If you wonder what to think of it, Palladio’s modest opinion was that it “ranked among the most noble and most beautiful edifices since ancient times, not only for its grandeur and ornaments, but also its materials” (hard white limestone).

  • The Phantom Menace didn't need to be barren of feeling, but it took a real writer, Lawrence Kasdan ( The Big Chill , 1983), to draft the best and most inspiring of the Star Wars movies, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and a real director, Irvin Kershner, to breathe Wagnerian grandeur into Lucas' cartoonish fantasies.

  • 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.


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