glorious
Example Sentences
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California the magnificent, California the glorious, was slipping away, disappearing into smog, covered over by concrete.
From Los Angeles Times
"As female comedians, especially if you've been performing on stage, we just have to be so prepared and it's been glorious to watch her be so prepared even at this stage of her career."
From BBC
It was impossible to recognize that stooped and shabby little man in the glorious figure at the door, greeting newcomers with a formal welcome followed by a relentless tour of the shop.
From Literature
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Every American kid “ought to understand how glorious the Bill of Rights is, and particularly the First Amendment. And we know that kids don’t know any of this.”
To lose it would mean to vanish a snapshot of what makes this city glorious.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.