Example sentences for: grandiose

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

  • As the Church regained ground, it promoted a more triumphant image, epitomized by the works of Bernini, the most productive of them all: His grandiose Baroque altar in St. Peter’s speaks rather effectively to the time.

  • This intelligence rose all the way up to British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, who quashed it, and Winston Churchill, who enfolded it in grandiose speeches about mass execution that didn't quite explain what was occurring.

  • The grounds are dominated by the bizarre and grandiose Peace Tower, which, curiously, was erected in 1940.

  • The museum, in a shockingly grandiose neoclassic building on a beguiling little street, is named for its benefactor and the town’s former mayor, whose family founded the Bacardí rum empire (which moved its headquarters and production to Puerto Rico after the revolution).

  • Felipe II’s greatest lasting legacy is El Escorial, a grandiose palace and monastery in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, northwest of Madrid.


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