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Example sentences for: terrific
How can you use “terrific” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Similarly, it is the odd juxtaposition of references that makes "News Quiz" responses so perversely pleasing: (click for more, and you really should because there's terrific stuff on Page 2) Susan Sontag and Michael Jackson's ass, glue sniffing and the ruble, IPOs and Adam Sandler, MacGyver and 1998.
With very little effort, it is possible to utter a terrific run-on sentence like, “Put the medium-sized brass bolt--not the one with the little black top, but the other one--into the sort of oblong L-shaped part with the green paint on one end, but first make sure that you have the axle pointed towards the side with the sort of wooden handle.”
Here's a Buick ad, cited by Thomas Dalzell, a lexicographer of slang, in his terrific book Flappers 2 Rappers : "Stand off and beam at Buick's years-ahead style--there's something not only favored by the old folks, but termed by the younger idea, definitely groovy !" The ad appeared in Newsweek in 1946.
Also worth visiting are the Igreja Matriz (São Clemente), a 13th-century Gothic church with 18th-century azulejo tiles; the Convento da Graça, with a terrific Manueline portal; and Ermida de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, a small church prized for its Baroque altar and ceramic tiles.