Sample Sentences forgrandeur (editor-reviewed)
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Tourists gazed in awe at the grandeur of the snow-capped mountains.grandeur = impressive magnificence
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The palace was famous for its grandeur and ornate decoration.grandeur = majestic splendor
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The hotel is well past the days of its grandeur.grandeur = impressive magnificence
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I love the grandeur of cathedrals.grandeur = large magnificence
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But I do not want to be the president who built empires, or sought grandeur, or extended dominion. (source)grandeur = impressive magnificence
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Even in dim torchlight, the grandeur of the place amazed me.† (source)
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The cameras haven't lied about its grandeur.† (source)
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That was a notch above even the blacksmith's domestic grandeurs, and it hit him hard; you could see it.† (source)
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Yet here was a scattered grove of trees, none of them of any particular grandeur.† (source)
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This being an ambassador couldn't be envisioned as in the old days—a Guicciardini arriving from Florence with his clever face, or a Russian coming to Venice, or an Adams—such grandeurs have sunk down as the imagination has been transferred from the bearer of his country's power walking on rugs to his blowing shellac through the waterpipes of Lima to stop the rust.† (source)
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True, Clayton had never eaten in a restaurant and overesteemed the grandeur of the joint.† (source)
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That was why I came to lie on a bed in a hotel in Long Beach, California, on the last coast amid the grandeurs of nature.† (source)
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.† (source)
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Hold it not in contempt; it is the humble step which will lead to grandeurs more worthy of the splendor of an origin like to thine.† (source)
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A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand.† (source)
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Intended gaieties would insist upon appearing like solemn grandeurs, the organization of the whole effort was carried out coldly, by hirelings, and a shadow seemed to move about the rooms, saying that the proceedings were unnatural to the place and the lone man who lived therein, and hence not good.† (source)
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