grandly

Example Sentences

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“Comb of the Wind” is one of the few grandly monumental projects he ever realized.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

And pretty quickly thereafter, some slamming winter rains did their own kind of christening and Prospect Bar got washed away, to be replaced almost at once by the even more grandly named Eldoradoville.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

Here, water transport assumes a form that is grandly ritualistic if decidedly prosaic.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024

The grandly named chapters of our planet’s history are governed by a body of scientists, the International Union of Geological Sciences.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2024

She stopped, turned to me, and bowed grandly.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli