Example Sentences

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Filming predominantly south of Athens in Greece helped maintain a natural grandness for the project.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

In fact, George Washington’s classic farewell address came perilously close to eschewing grandness and nobility and offering a precursor to Nixon’s approach.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

“There is something about the grandness of those sets and costumes; you get carried away with the theater of it, and it stops being real to you,” she said.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023

"The grandness of the occasion with the coffin draped with the flag, the crown and the procession left a lump in my throat."

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2022

After all, for grandness and sophistication nothing could match a world-class rowing team.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown