grand style
Example Sentences
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Sciver-Brunt hits 117 to reach fifth world cup century 'in grand style'
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025
That October, on Kardashian’s 33rd birthday, West proposed in grand style, offering her a 15-carat diamond ring as a 50-piece orchestra played in the baseball stadium he had rented.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2022
We’ve barely seen Rice and Soucek so far, when usually they’d be putting themselves about in the grand style.
From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2020
The grand style of the Golden Age was on its last legs by 1987, a fact both underlined and mooted by the re-creation on that year’s telecast of a showstopper already 21 years old.
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2020
Figures of auxesis and repetition—often pulling together words or themes from earlier in the speech—commonly proliferate in the peroration, and many orators will crank it up a little in the direction of the grand style.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
