grandiose

Example Sentences

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"The grandiose promises of destroying Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran are not coming true," said Dahlia Scheindlin, a Policy Fellow at the Mitvim Institute, a think tank focused on Israeli foreign policy.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

This kind of content is what Donaldson has become known for: convoluted challenges and grandiose philanthropic efforts.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026

Even when I was 9, Presley struck me as embarrassingly grandiose and cheesier than Wisconsin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

But slumping crude prices, government mismanagement and U.S. sanctions have left Venezuela’s industry a hollowed-out shell of its former, grandiose self.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

He never forgot the grandiose, terrible sight of that tiny child entering the world, coated with all her bloody membranes, between the shrieks of her mother and the cries of the women bustling around her.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende