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Example sentences for "grandly"

Lexicographically close words:
grandiloquence; grandiloquent; grandiose; grandis; grandissimo; grandma; grandmama; grandmamma; grandmammy; grandmaster
  1. And Rosa turned grandly and marched out of the school-house.

  2. In a miserable Esquimaux hut, on a pile of furs, I saw the flame of a beautiful and grandly noble life die out.

  3. I saw no means of doing it that seemed so available as a companion,--a being, born and bred in an atmosphere of honor and grandly humane ideas and actions.

  4. There have iconoclasts no power to harm, So, folded grandly in translucent mist, I let the lights stream down my jasper arm, And o'er my opal fist.

  5. He does not cater to our hungry fancy, he appeals grandly to our noblest impulses.

  6. In his interior light Awoke those shapes of might Once known that never die; Forms of titanic birth, The elder brood of earth, That fill the mind more grandly than they charm the eye.

  7. So stood this Angelo Four hundred years ago; So grandly still he stands, Mid lesser worlds of art, Colossal and apart, Like Memnon breathing songs across the desert sands.

  8. The policemen who strolled grandly through the tents, proud of not having to pay for their fun, accorded her admiration or good-natured skepticism but no suspicion.

  9. This very excellent effect is due doubtless to Alan of Walsingham's fourteenth-century design for a grandly broad basis to the octagon tower under which he lies.

  10. These words, grandly uttered, caused a dead silence in the court, but only for a few moments.

  11. When we first went to Washington many thought Mr. Lincoln was weak, but he rose grandly with the circumstances.

  12. Lincoln thought that was a great truth and grandly uttered.

  13. Looking away in a southeasterly direction, the scenic beauty is grandly impressive.

  14. It would be grandly historical and tell a story that a patriotic people should never forget.

  15. He told me that he was just about to join a cavalry regiment; and I could well imagine, when military dignity was added to that gait, how grandly he would go.

  16. As a consequence of this predilection for sensuous and voluptuous forms, Correggio had no power of imagining grandly or severely.

  17. One cannot conceive of the grandly egoistic poet saying this.

  18. James Russell Lowell has described the poet's achievement: With a sorrowful and conquering beauty, The soul of all looked grandly from his eyes.

  19. This it was that ruled in his soul, and kept it grandly self-possessed, so that the terrible provocation of the animal pain was too slight to disturb the equal balance of his nature.

  20. Baron Bolland was equally civil, but to his court I could not get before the last day; and grandly beautiful does he still look, though he has had a paralytic stroke.

  21. Here they encountered pleasant lanes leading through peaceful sequestered valleys, beside gently flowing streams and babbling brooks, where the trees overarched most grandly and the shade was most refreshing.

  22. But here the entire Desert swept in to form a shrine, and the Majesty that once was Egypt stepped grandly back across ages of denial and neglect.

  23. The Fourth Senior grandly condescended to witness the vulgar exploits of their juniors, and the other classes were most of them represented by one or more spectators.

  24. When they had done so to the Three Precious Ones, he made a large elephant be grandly caparisoned, and placed the bowl upon it.

  25. They come as if in clouds; and when they are all assembled, their place of session is grandly decorated.

  26. On this hill the peak is beautifully green, and rises grandly up; it is the highest of all the five hills.

  27. Over the footprint at the north of the city the king built a large tope, four hundred cubits high, grandly adorned with gold and silver, and finished with a combination of all the precious substances.

  28. How grandly they maintained Their hold of all the heritage That Wan and Woo had gained!

  29. The seven precious substances [3] were grandly displayed about it, with silken streamers and canopies hanging all around.

  30. All these figures are brightly colored and grandly executed, looking as if they were alive.

  31. Over the city gate they pitch a large tent, grandly adorned in all possible ways, in which the king and queen, with their ladies brilliantly arrayed, take up their residence for the time.

  32. When they brought the Sûtras forth, three lofty seats had been prepared and grandly ornamented.

  33. We watched the sheet unfolding grandly wave; Each flag around showed falcons on its face.

  34. They make figures of devas, with gold, silver, and lapis lazuli grandly blended and having silken streamers and canopies hung out over them.

  35. It is a pleasant nook, grandly encircled with mountains, with the wonderfully blue heavens by day, and lustrous stars by night.

  36. St. Helena was grandly lifted up on that autumnal morning, and all the little mountains seemed to be rendering homage to the king.

  37. He was grandly inurned, and lifted up out of the sea by such a force as no living or dead Pharaoh could command.

  38. Barbara drew her rein tight: this scene, so grandly beautiful, the passionate eloquence in her companion's look and voice, aroused all the enthusiasm of her nature.

  39. The warriors grew proud of their victim, she looked death so grandly in the face.

  40. It is all grandly theatrical, but it is very real nevertheless.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    conspicuously; eminently; extravagantly; grandly; gravely; greatly; impressively; loftily; magnificently; markedly; nobly; notably; prominently; proudly; remarkably; soberly; solemnly; splendidly; superbly