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

Open, where she swept to the 2019 title in precociously grand style, defeating Serena Williams in straight sets in the final at age 19.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2021

However engaging any tournament’s group stages – and despite the awkwardness of the format, these finished in the grand style – ultimate success is determined by the quality of the knockouts.

From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2021

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