Example sentences for: impressive

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

  • Some of the most impressive exhibits are the photographs of the rajas and their families, dating from before 1908, the year of the puputan which took place in the open space in front of the palace and marked the end of effective resistance to the Dutch (see page 19).

  • Upriver from the sandbank at its mouth, the Douro runs between Porto and the port lodges of Vila Nova de Gaia, passing beneath a series of impressive bridges and on towards port-wine territory.

  • An office building that functions poorly as an office building but looks impressive should be criticized, just as a dictionary that has impressive photos and presses flowers well but has poor definitions and etymologies should be criticized.

  • The pretty town is most remarkable for its impressive 16th-century Paço Ducal (Ducal Palace) of the Bragança family, the last of Portugal’s royal dynasties.

  • This vulgarism is a specific usage of the well-known colloquialism denoting anything resounding or impressive.


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