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.

  • In the purely visual sphere, style has been a national preoccupation from the Renaissance masters such as Michelangelo and Leo­nardo da Vinci to the grandiose cinematographic fantasies of Fellini and Visconti in the modern era.

  • On the other hand, it is an oddly grandiose conclusion to an appealingly modest book.

  • Facing the river along Zhongshan Road are some grandiose old buildings, a bit the worse for wear.

  • It may be that grandiose schemes for redesigning society inevitably flirt with repressive politics.


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