Example sentences for: magnificent

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

  • But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.

  • Not with the menu, but with the magnificent display sprawled across a long table as you enter: seafood antipasti, stuffed eggplant and zucchini, grilled peppers in red, yellow, and green, and whatever bounty this morning’s market yielded.

  • Near the ferry dock, across Calle Marina, you’ll see the rising edifice of the San Juan Post Office, a magnificent building with Art-Deco features.

  • By curious coincidence, this fairy-tale conjunction of appealing nymphets and gory murder is currently the subject of an unusual show at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York: an exhibition of eccentrically magnificent watercolors by the late painter and writer Henry Darger.

  • Though little remains from Roman times, the city’s Byzantine legacy boasts Haghia Sophia, the Church of the Divine Wisdom and one of the world’s greatest buildings; the magnificent mosaics of St. Saviour in Chora; and the impressive Theodosian Walls.


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