Example sentences for: splendid

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

  • Originally built in the fourth century on the Esquiline Hill site of a Roman temple to the goddess Juno, Santa Maria Maggiore is the largest and most splendid of the churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

  • The remains visible today are their replacements, even bigger and more splendid than the originals.

  • The result is a fairly schematic narrative: The young hothead of the early Celtic Revivalist years produces lovely impracticalities until 1914, when Ireland explodes; he learns about reality, becomes a great poet of civil war, and a modernist to boot; after 1925, or thereabouts, he becomes one of those "monuments of unageing intellect" about whom he writes in "Sailing to Byzantium"--the splendid complainer of the late verse.

  • Now I worry a little about my car, a splendid secondhand Toyota Camry .

  • Old Madrid’s centerpiece is its splendid, porticoed and sun-glazed Plaza Mayor.


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