Sample Sentences for
spectacle
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(editor-reviewed)

spectacle as in:  made a spectacle of herself

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    It made for an unforgettable sports spectacle.
    spectacle = an event that attracts attention
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    What a spectacle she made, her wide rear end sticking out, singing in that tuneless, nasal voice.  (source)
    spectacle = thing that attracts attention
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    It somehow made the event grander, a greater spectacle.  (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
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    Lina turned away from the miserable spectacle.  (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
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    That superspectacle that Dirk Manleigh is starring in and then a good adventure show.†  (source)
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    People were coming from all over to see the spectacle, which featured Pompeii's champion fighter.  (source)
    spectacle = a notable or unusual event that attracts attention
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    Nat and the redheaded seaman who had painted the Dolphin's figurehead that morning on the river were cheerfully exchanging insults with a cluster of young bound boys who had stopped to enjoy the spectacle, the two culprits holding their own in an unchastened manner that delighted the onlookers.  (source)
    spectacle = something that attracts attention
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    My mind became unnaturally calm, as if part of me had lifted right up out of my body and was sitting on a tree limb watching the spectacle from a safe distance.  (source)
    spectacle = noteworthy thing to see
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    What a spectacle that would be for the sewing bees and Bible study groups.  (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
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    Always at night the alarm comes. Never by day! Is it because fire is prettier by night? More spectacle, a better show?  (source)
    spectacle = noteworthy (impressive or attention-getting)
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    And when, as on that day, nine of the greatest masked spirits in the clan came out together it was a terrifying spectacle.  (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
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    The Devon's course was determined by some familiar hills a little inland; it rose among highland farms and forests which we knew, passed at the end of its course through the school grounds, and then threw itself with little spectacle over a small waterfall beside the diving dam, and into the turbid Naguamsett.  (source)
    spectacle = attraction of attention
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    On a beach, they made a spectacle of themselves when Fred, feeling emasculated by the pity over his missing leg, flung away his crutches, hopped over to Louie, and tackled him.  (source)
    spectacle = something that attracts attention
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spectacle as in:  wore spectacles

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She couldn't find her spectacles.
spectacles = eyeglasses
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    She used spectacles for reading.
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    He raised his head for a moment: again the hostile spectacle-flash.  (source)
    spectacle = eyeglass
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    When Harry had finished, he merely continued to peer at them through his spectacles.  (source)
    spectacles = eyeglasses
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    Sydelle turned to the group, one penciled eyebrow arched high over her red sequined spectacles.  (source)
    spectacles = eyeglasses
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    The tutor's cheeks, swelling with anger, almost unhorsed the small spectacles saddling his nose.  (source)
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    She wore enormous spectacles, twice as thick and twice as large as Meg's, and she was sewing busily, with rapid jabbing stitches, on a sheet.  (source)
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    I slam my palm on the desk in front of him, and he jerks out of his daze, staring at me over his spectacles.  (source)
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    August stared through her spectacles.  (source)
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    He took a stump of lead pencil out of his pocket and scribbled a moustache on the lion's upper lip and then a pair of spectacles on its eyes.  (source)
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    He smeared the sweat from his cheeks and quickly adjusted the spectacles on his nose.  (source)
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    A pair of large gold-rimmed spectacles hung from a nail on the wall above his bed.  (source)
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    They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.  (source)
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    It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly spectacles turned up on its ghostly forehead.  (source)
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