GRANDEUR in a Sentence
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47 example sentences for GRANDEUR, such as:
1. They have a revolutionary grandeur.
2. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its own.
3. Despite the decay the mosque somehow retained a profound grandeur.
4. Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.
5. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur of its own.
2. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its own.
3. Despite the decay the mosque somehow retained a profound grandeur.
4. Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.
5. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur of its own.
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Meanings and Examples of GRANDEUR
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grandeur
n. quality or condition of being grand; magnificence
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1 All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man.
2 Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered himself to all blows in that tempest.
3 The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of humanity.
4 There is a moral grandeur; we hold to that.
5 To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its own.
6 Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur of its own.
7 Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of poetry, he preferred the immense.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
8 The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to this couplet a sort of strange grandeur.
9 They have a revolutionary grandeur.
10 Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire.
11 The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but on the side of the nation.
12 A badly constituted grandeur in which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral element enters.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
13 Being of the past, he belonged to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
14 For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
15 The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her loins.
Example Sentence:
1 And above it all the great man sat and beamed a majestic judicial smile upon the entire house, and warmed himself in the sun of his own grandeur.
2 Don suffers from delusion of grandeur: he thinks he's a world-famous author when he's published just one paperback book.
3 The concept that matter and energy are inter-convertible strikes to the core of the universe, probably exceeds in grandeur any other picture the field of physical science.
4 And above it all the great man sat and beamed a majestic judicial smile upon all the house, and warmed himself in the sun of his own grandeur -- for he was "showing off," too.
5 Despite the decay the mosque somehow retained a profound grandeur.
6 Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.