grandly

Example Sentences

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“Comb of the Wind” is one of the few grandly monumental projects he ever realized.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

This documentary by Violet Du Feng studies the battle between the sexes on a scale that’s both intimate and grandly sociological.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

Callas’ was, indeed, a life of conflicts between the artist who grandly became La Callas and the woman who was Maria.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2024

The grandly named chapters of our planet’s history are governed by a body of scientists, the International Union of Geological Sciences.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2024

On the eighth day at sea, Lefty Stephanides, grandly, on one knee, in full view of six hundred and sixty-three steerage passengers, proposed to Desdemona Aristos while she sat on a docking cleat.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides