Example Sentences

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But with millions of restless, anxious app scrollers ordering up that rain on demand, its essential gorgeousness is now a commodity — just another sound effect, and sleep aid.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023

This beauty and freshness and gorgeousness is all going to be taken away from her.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2023

There’s plenty of that to be found in Ciaran O’Reilly’s main-stage production, whose requisite grimness is edged with the gorgeousness of performances that are sly, vivid and pulsingly alive.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

There’s a simplicity and a gorgeousness to the landscape.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2022

A more general and surely less parochial view was that his face had been just barely saved from too-handsomeness, not to say gorgeousness, by virtue of one ear’s protruding slightly more than the other.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger