spectacles
Example Sentences
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Viewers loved going to the movies for those big-budget spectacles because they were a means of transportation.
From Salon
Dark and clear nights are the optimum viewing conditions so let's hope that 2026 gifts us with more spectacles in the night sky.
From BBC
A handful of foreign films — particularly family-friendly animation and broadly apolitical spectacles — can still break through in a major way.
From MarketWatch
And yet he’s never lost sight of the fragile characters at the center of his spectacles.
From Los Angeles Times
And Alexandre’s movie theater, with its bloody spectacles, gets replaced by something very different: a blood bank, a monument to recovery.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.