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Example sentences for: majestic
How can you use “majestic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The archaeological site of Mycenae, now stripped of its treasures, still makes a majestic scene though it is rather smaller than one might imagine.
They are less chic now, but their majestic sweep can still evoke former glories.
"In 1997," Rafferty writes, "independent movie after independent movie arrived in theaters on waves of critical admiration, and moviegoers unaccustomed to the peculiar moral universe of indie-ness must have emerged from these experiences deeply perplexed: wondering, perhaps, how the reviewers who carped about studio films like Steven Spielberg's majestic, flawed Amistad could embrace wholeheartedly stuff as dubious as Deconstructing Harry , The Sweet Hereafter , Boogie Nights , [and] In the Company of Men ." Rafferty correctly identifies indie film's "air of smugness."
Onomatopoeia has a long, honorable, and pleasurable history—from Aristophanes' brek-ke-kex ko-ax ko-ax to Kermit's ribbet, ribbet —from majestic lines in ancient epic poetry to simple, homey words like plop, splash , and murmur . In every language and time, the sound and look of some words have given clues to their meaning: their sound has suggested their sense.
The Temple of Juno, with its sacrificial altar, stands in majestic isolation high on a ledge at the eastern end of the Via Sacra.
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