spectaclein a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
spectacle as in: made a spectacle of herself
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She argues that the Olympic Games have become indistinguishable from other commercialized sports spectacles.spectacles = events that attract attention
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Don't make a spectacle of yourself.spectacle = something that attracts attention
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It made for an unforgettable sports spectacle.spectacle = an event 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)
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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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That superspectacle that Dirk Manleigh is starring in and then a good adventure show.† (source)
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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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We march on the grass and pull the wagon behind us, around apple and cherry trees, which become skyscrapers soaring into clouds, heads poking out of thousands of windows to watch the spectacle passing below. (source)spectacle = noteworthy thing to see
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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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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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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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Weren't they thrilled by the spectacle before them? (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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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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When Harry had finished, he merely continued to peer at them through his spectacles. (source)
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Sydelle turned to the group, one penciled eyebrow arched high over her red sequined spectacles. (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)spectacles = eyeglasses
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He raised his head for a moment: again the hostile spectacle-flash. (source)spectacle = eyeglass
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August stared through her spectacles. (source)spectacles = eyeglasses
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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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He smeared the sweat from his cheeks and quickly adjusted the spectacles on his nose. (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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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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When I try to imagine him as a boy I see him with gray whiskers and spectacles, just as he looks in Sunday school, only small. (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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