How to Use grandiose in a Sentence

grandiose

adjective

• He was full of grandiose ideas.
• It’s not just the sets and shot set-ups that are grandiose.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• And a standard was set: The Olympics need to be grandiose.
  — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 6 July 2020
• There, Marc plans to complete the film on his own grandiose terms.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 June 2023
• Maurice Jarre’s score sets the stage for a grandiose film.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2020
• For a few hours, the Neom team showed me around and made grandiose promises about the future.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• Then comes word of a grandiose scheme to reboot the world order.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 24 June 2021
• Rarely has his grandiose rhetoric seemed so matched to a real threat.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• And of course, just like all of their other grandiose claims, this one is dead wrong.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
• This part of the film is the least sumptuous and grandiose — and the most affecting.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2022
• In the years that followed, the band’s grandiose designs began to catch up with it.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 2 May 2022
• Talk about run on sentences with grandiose and wordy prose.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2021
• Read our review here and a report on the making of the show and its grandiose host venue here.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• The grandiose performances and events were meant to impress the king's court — and all of Europe.
  — Geof Wheelwright, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2024
• The grandiose look of the old bank building and its 35-foot ceilings will be maintained.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2021
• What if biopics of Black men and women weren’t so linear and grandiose?
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• Four young entrepreneurs with a grandiose vision of building a utopia for the tech elite.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
• Then again, even Bucky and Buck might have balked at the show’s grandiose opening titles.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
• This latest one was sent to the states and is less grandiose in appearance.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2024
• The music is grandiose and thrilling, and sells how big the show wants to be, no matter how big your screen might be.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
• Ford was prone to these sorts of grandiose pronouncements.
  — Dave Schilling, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2020
• Guides set up camp tents as guests take a hike or relax in lawn chairs taking in the grandiose scenery.
  — Pete Zimowsky, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• There are good reasons to be cautious about those grandiose claims.
  — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
• The film radiates a love of The Boss that’s as sloppily grandiose as my own — and maybe yours, too.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• The hit was clean, a crushing blow to Greinke's otherwise grandiose night.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2019
• How could there be anything wrong with this grandiose and iconic coach?
  — Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2020
• Behold: One of the most grandiose royal traditions—the Gold State Coach.
  — Janaya Wecker, Town & Country, 31 May 2022
• The Lessons Learned interviews show the grandiose nation-building project was marred from the start.
  — Craig Whitlock, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2019
• It was called Rise of the Necromancer, which suggested some sort of grandiose expansion, but all players received was a new class, which made the price tag sting.
  — Jason Schreier, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
• And if this all sounds grandiose, consider: Rogo went from zero to a seven-digit ARR in less than five months with one sales rep, and is already fielding tens of thousands of queries daily.
  — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024