Example sentences for: grandiose

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

  • The recipe has been adopted by scores of bands; most notable: chart-topping Smashing Pumpkins ' more grandiose version.

  • Another sheet of grandiose, lunatic jottings ends with the demented scrawl: "This page is the highest vAlue assigNMent/ tasK/ qua of 1993."

  • The word was originally a theatrical term for a showy trick or patch of high-flown, grandiose language that actors would use to attract (`trap') applause (`claps') from their audiences.

  • This is Templeton unvarnished, didactic, optimistic, scientific, grandiose beyond imagination: "Behind this book is my belief that the basic principles for leading a 'sublime life' can be examined and tested just as science examines and tests natural laws of the universe."

  • Did I respond to him as an adolescent because Pollock was a misbehaved, grandiose adolescent himself?


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