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How to use spectacular in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Spectacular means amazing or worthy of special notice. Example: “The parachutists were spectacular.”

Examples of spectacular by meaning

adjectiveAmazing or worthy of special notice.

  • The parachutists were spectacular.

adjectiveRelated to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment.

  • the merely spectacular
  • Those apparently insignificant events which really make history are seldom featured in the press; the merely spectacular too frequently crowds the essential out of the public sheets.1910 August 21, Andre Tridon, “Europe Flirts with Argentina to Win Her Rich Trade”, in The New York Times

nounA spectacular display.

  • Though business has more or less held up so far, a series of drug-related spectaculars sparked an exodus of the city's upper class this summer.16 October 2010, “Under the volcano”, in The Economist

More sentences with spectacular

  • The center fielder made a spectacular sliding catch.From the entry center fielder
  • The centrefielder has just made a spectacular sliding catch.From the entry centrefielder
  • The fireworks were nothing short of spectacular.From the entry nothing short of
  • Her reign was brief but spectacular.From the entry brief
  • Open for the first time in two years, and she’s off to a spectacular start.2024 August 27, Brooke LaMantia, “Naomi Osaka Is Having a Brat U.S. Open”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2024. From the entry bratty
  • "The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search."2023 July 24, Chris Eberhart, “NY police used AI to track drivers on highways as attorney questions legality”, in Fox News, archived from…. From the entry amount
  • The 21st century's spectacular reimagined transport hub "set out to shake off the old image of stations.2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 69. From the entry shake off
  • The combination of brk and rb is quite spectacular from the perspective of the pagan Arabian inscriptions.2021, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Hythem Sidky, “A Paleo‐Arabic inscription on a route north of Ṭāʾif”, in Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy, volume…. From the entry Himyarite
  • Tianshui was once surrounded by high gateways and spectacular city walls, whose lines followed the river.2020 May 11, Anna Sherman, “A Poetic Journey Through Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11…. From the entry Tianshui
  • It faces south with spectacular views over Kowloon Peninsula, Victoria Harbour and the mountains of The Peak.2019 December 4, Peta Tomlinson, “Elite living in Central Kowloon’s Beacon Hill, Ho Man Tin and Kadoorie Hill”, in South China Morning…. From the entry Beacon Hill
  • The WTO will not dissolve in a series of spectacular events, dramatic conflicts and withdrawals.2019, Michal Parizek, Negotiations in the World Trade Organization. From the entry zombie organization
  • Pineapples were particularly prized because of their flavour and spectacular appearance.2016 December 5, Alan Wilson, Comfort, Pleasure and Prestige: Country-house Technology in West Wales 1750-1930, Troubador Publishing Ltd…. From the entry pinery
  • “This twinsy cuteness may have been fine if these designs were spectacular,” she says.2015, Margaret Gurevich, Unraveling (Chloe by Design), Stone Arch Books, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry twinsy
  • Perhaps in reference to its spectacular, arguably roosterish, red comb-like frontal plate.2013, Jeannie Gray, Ian Fraser, Australian Bird Names: A Complete Guide, CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry roosterish
  • Would you know what to do if you witnessed the spectacular sight of a whale “breaching”?2012, James Doyle, A Young Scientist's Guide to Defying Disasters with Skill & Daring, Gibbs Smith, page 142. From the entry spy hop
  • It is spectacular to see after days nothing but sand then in the distance a tree.2012 December 8, petzl, “Moslems stop Christmass festivities in Campbelltown Shopping Centre”, in aus.politics (Usenet). From the entry Christmas's tree
  • The spectacular conjunction of Venus and Mars gave rise to a myriad of mythical interpretations.2011, Starf*cker […] , Ev Cochrane, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry conjunction
  • So I have given diabetic patients both calcium arginate and magnesium arginate, with spectacular results thus far.2010, Hans Nieper, The Curious Man: The Life and Works of Dr. Hans Nieper, page 67. From the entry arginate
  • I'm not usually a cherub person, he said donnishly, but the carvings are spectacular.2007 November 11, Alex Williams, “Odd Man In”, in New York Times. From the entry donnishly
  • The 1½-hour tramp passes through banksia, gum, and wattle forests, with spectacular views of peaks and valleys.2006, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Australia from $60 a Day, page 186. From the entry tramp
  • When the Zulu nation calls for an imbizo, it's generally a spectacular affair.2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20060519180538/http://www.mondomix.com/en/artist.php?artist_id=338. From the entry imbizo
  • The connection between the everyday and the spectacular also controls the continuum between cooking and chefing.2006, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 193. From the entry chefing
  • Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.2005, Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine, page 197. From the entry leopard
  • The next two floors were similar though not quite as spectacular and the stakes were lower.2004, Tim Hatton, Tock Tock Birds: A Spider in the Web of International Terrorism, page 284. From the entry floor
  • This is an area of spectacular tidal races, rips, swirls, boils, whirlpools, overfalls, currents, and countercurrents.2003 December, Jonathan Raban, “Julia and the Whirlpools”, in Cruising World, volume 29, number 12, page 40. From the entry race
  • Some of the most spectacular beasts in East Coast museums happen to be Tyrannosaurus rexes from Montana.1999, Fred Setterberg, America: True Stories of Life on the Road, →ISBN, page 244. From the entry tyrannosaurus rex
  • The true ephemerist is as committed to the smallest neglected fragment as to the spectacular 'collector's piece'.1988, Maurice Rickards, Collecting printed ephemera, page 30. From the entry ephemerist
  • People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.1987, Donald Trump, Tony Schwartz, The Art of the Deal, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry hyperbole
  • North America has a spectacular one on the Petitcodiac River in New Brunswick.1985 December 22, Roy Reed, “HERE COMES THE SEVERN BORE”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015…. From the entry Qiantang
  • Gulangyu island has a spectacular crows-nest lookout reached by winding stone staircases.1980 April 9 [1980 April 8], Jay Mathews, “Nationalist Islands Sound Siren Call to Mainland Chinese”, in The Washington Post, sourced from…. From the entry lookout
  • It restores that sovereignty by manifesting it at its most spectacular.1979, Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan, Discipline and Punish, page 55. From the entry reconstitute
  • The 3M Company has had spectacular success with its scratch-and-sniff scents.1976, Ruth Winter, The smell book: scents, sex, and society, page 106. From the entry microfragrance
  • In some groups a schemochrome overlies a conspicuous biochrome, with spectacular effect.1975, Howe, William H, Bauer, David L, The Butterflies of North America, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, page 19. From the entry schemochrome
  • The remote area will offer astronomers a ringside seat for the sky spectacular.1970 March 9, “Sky Spectacular”, in Time. From the entry ringside seat
  • This serve is spectacular but is being used less and less in competition.1970, Peck, Wilbur H, Volleyball, Collier Collier-Macmillan, page 29. From the entry downspin
  • But a fait accompli even more spectacular than this awaited the Chinese.1967, Henry McAleavy, “The Second Opium War”, in The Modern History of China, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91. From the entry dominion

Meaning of spectacular

  1. adjective Amazing or worthy of special notice.
  2. adjective Related to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment.
  3. adjective Relating to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.

Full definition of spectacular

Questions about spectacular in a sentence

How do you use spectacular in a sentence?
Spectacular is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The parachutists were spectacular.”
What is a short sentence with spectacular?
“the merely spectacular”
What does spectacular mean?
Spectacular means amazing or worthy of special notice.

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