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• All of them are second-raters with delusions of grandeur.From the entry second-rater
• These buildings are from the time of different sulṭāns and are buildings of extreme grandeur and glory.2020, Shiblī Nuʿmānī, translated by Gregory Maxwell Bruce, Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University…. From the entry sulṭān
• The loneliness and remote grandeur of the scene swept one into an angelless Paradise.2007, Mark Channing, India Mosaic. From the entry angelless
• When I arrived at the Waldorf I was taken away by its grandeur.2006, Assuanta Collins, Until the Next Time, Asta Publications, LLC,, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry off the chain
• Let’s wake up and oppose this widespread defamation; restore to the feast its significance and grandeur.1948 December 19, George H. Sallaway, “Coming—‘Clausmas Day’”, in Our Sunday Visitor, Omaha Archdiocesan True Voice edition, volume…. From the entry unfrock
• I wonder if that old coot has got what they call 'delusions of grandeur'?"1918, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 190, numbers 35-43, page 109. From the entry coot
• The most impressive knightings could be occasions of some grandeur.2011, Nigel Saul, Chivalry in Medieval England, page 19. From the entry knighting
• What delusions of grandeur went into the naming of them?1991, Angela Carter, Wise Children, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry Melchior
• But I do not want to be the president who built empires or sought grandeur or extended dominion.1965 March 15, Lyndon B. Johnson, 43:30 from the start, in Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise [on the Voting Rights…. From the entry might
• The grandeur intoxication prompts the customary good natured obtrusion of the practice of nicotinism in to the presence of others.1918 February 2, James L. Tracy, “The psychological, physiological, and pharmacological basis of nicotinism, alcoholism, and morphinism”…. From the entry nicotinism
• It was a moment of bathos and anticlimax; a poor sequel to my smoke-ringed, vinous reverie on American grandeur the previous night.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN; republished London: Atlantic Books, 2011, →ISBN, page 254. From the entry vinous
• But the enormity of Clement's vision of papal grandeur only became clear once the public rooms were completed during the years that immediately followed.2008, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon: A Century in Exile, New York, N.Y.: BlueBridge, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry enormity
• The overheard snippets of real feeling intermingled with poseur typecasting and provocative grandeur made Jayson feel that he could actually write this poem.2006, Francis Raven, Inverted Curvatures: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Spuyten Duyvil, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry languagey
• The perception of gladiatorial grandeur that surrounds pro football, I am convinced, has everything to do with the Greco-Roman grandiloquence of its players’ names.2004, Steve Rushin, The Caddie Was a Reindeer: And Other Tales of Extreme Recreation, Grove Press, →ISBN. From the entry Roman numeraled
• Simply by being the largest optical telescope ever placed above Earth's obscuring atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has yielded spectacular images of cosmic grandeur.2001 June 12, John Noble Wilford, “Hot Stellar Winds Captured by X-Ray Orbiter”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Aug 2015. From the entry optical telescope
• Much of this squary-holeful architecture, seems to me clumsy and dwarfy, full of the defects of Egyptian buildings but wanting their grandeur.1989, Vidya Dehejia, Edward Lear, Allen Staley, Impossible Picturesqueness: Edward Lear's Indian Watercolours, 1873-1875, pages 66–67. From the entry holeful
• All of this is a calculated set-up, Saltburn intended to seduce the viewer with grandeur as much as it might hope to imply ominous things lurking under the surface.2023 November 13, Rosalind Jana, “Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes”, in BBC. From the entry under the surface
• Don’t get me wrong, I love Edinburgh, with its Hogwartsy cobbles and granite grandeur, seeped in history and united by culture, heritage and a too-often-racist hatred of the English.2019 June 13, Phil Clarke, “Fringe Benefits: All The Best Edinburgh Fringe Previews In London”, in The Handbook, The Handbook UK Ltd…. From the entry Hogwartsy
• It is the life-breath after the multitudinous fruit that seeks and finds fulfilment in plumaged grandeur of the superlife's unstained gold, in its finesome marvel and magnificence.1994, Nirodbaran, R. Y. Deshpande, Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna, Amal-Kiran: Poet and Critic, page 154. From the entry finesome
• You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness — the sense of elemental grandeur."1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out. From the entry vulgarize
• The gatehouse survives still as a witness to this grandeur: with its Dholpur sandstone façade, its delicate jharokha balconies and its fine fish-tail mouldings it is still a magnificent sight.1993, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns, Penguin, published 2004, page 56. From the entry jharokha

Meaning of grandeur

1. noun The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
2. noun Nobility (state of being noble).
3. noun Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.

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How do you use grandeur in a sentence?

Grandeur is used as a noun. For example: “All of them are second-raters with delusions of grandeur.”

What is a short sentence with grandeur?

“All of them are second-raters with delusions of grandeur.”

What does grandeur mean?

Grandeur means the state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.