Example sentences for: splendid

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

  • From Beijing, splendid sections of the wall can be enjoyed at several locations.

  • He should have got sued, sure, and jail was entirely appropriate for this particular act of civil disobedience, but as an occasional customer of the Golden Arches (personally, I prefer Wendy's) and French-American dual national, it's splendid to see someone willing to take a risk for their principles now and then, particularly when it's a blow against a monolithic transnational corporation that built itself up by underpaying children who ought to be at home studying for the next day of school rather than learning the mysteries of deep-frying every night.

  • The northern European rooms include a splendid Portrait of His Father (1490) by Albrecht Dürer; Adam and Eve (1528) by Lucas Cranach; Richard Southwell by Hans Holbein; and a moving Mater Dolorosa by Joos van Cleve.

  • Its faded glory includes balustrade terraces and staircases with splendid bursts of bougainvillea, busts of historic characters impaled on the parapets, brightly colored wall tiles, and formal gardens.

  • The same could be said of the exhibition as a whole, and its splendid catalog: They animate a process that, 80 years later, still seems new.


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