Example sentences for: splendid

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

  • Al-Azhar Mosque (meaning “The Splendid”) was finished in 972 though it has been expanded many times over the centuries, and its remarkable inner sanctuary now covers 10,360 sq m (4,000 sq ft).

  • Gardiner's conducting is so good (his Beethoven Symphony cycle is, to my ears, the one to own, and his Mozart and Handel performances are exemplary); Levin's playing is so dexterous, intelligent, and ardent; and the recording is so technically splendid (there are felicities of scoring, such as a solo cello line in the first movement I'd never noticed before) that, whatever its peculiarities, this release at least qualifies as best of breed.

  • The city is built on hills — by legend seven, in fact many more — but the great thing for the visitor is the splendid vantage points and lookouts that these provide.

  • Monte has been a fashionable hilltop town ever since wealthy merchants and exiled European aristocrats in the 19th century built their splendid quintas up here in the cool air above Funchal.

  • With a population of half a million, it was one of the world’s largest and most cultured cities and the splendid capital of the western Islamic Empire.


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