How to Use splendor in a Sentence

splendor

noun
  • The palace had lost much of its original splendor.
  • But that's just the beginning of all the fall splendor in the area.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2024
  • And the tradition and splendor stretched back 900 years, to the time of William the Conqueror.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 May 2023
  • Ready to see the palace in all its splendor for yourself?
    Geof Wheelwright, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Your best bet for viewing its splendor is to head to the dark of the mountains or seashore.
    Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The more than 200 images in the book display the splendor of nature.
    Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Both were soon stripped of their Olympic titles for doping, but the splendor of the venue was not in doubt.
    Chris Lehourites, Star Tribune, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The best way to appreciate the Bay Area’s splendor is on your own two feet.
    Carey Jones, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Yet in the town of Addison, there’s splendor beyond the grass.
    Steven Lindsey, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2020
  • In this splendor the birds are boisterous, as are the people.
    New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The splendor of high-altitude lakes awaits those who put in the legwork.
    Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 6 June 2020
  • In solitary splendor, the SigAlert even has its own traffic app, so put that in your pipe and smoke it, Waze.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The star’s bold charisma is matched only by the splendor of the sets in Joe Wright’s film adaptation.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The nights are getting longer, the humidity is lower and the splendors of the summer sky grace the evening hours.
    Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The splendor of the garden was a reward that Wiseman gave to himself and to the audience.
    David Denby, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • As seen in a quick clip, the King and Queen even popped into the ballroom before the banquet to check out the splendor for themselves.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But even the East Coast has a sprinkling of its own geothermal splendor.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The Topaz Room was still heroically clinging to the last threads of this fading splendor.
    Adrienne Miller, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Black people, in this telling, could be proud of their roots in the ancient kingdom that built some of the world’s greatest splendors.
    Vivian Yee, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • Yes, part of the splendor of the Horizon games is its ludicrous setting.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Down the coast from that natural splendor, oil strikes of 1923 would bring in about two-thirds of a million gallons a day.
    Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • There’s no clear answer to those questions, but that doesn’t diminish the splendor of this year’s crop of movies.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Cartoon by Emily Flake About an hour into this splendor, the screen goes dark.
    The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The splendors of autumn are waiting to be discovered here—both the small details and the sweeping views.
    Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024
  • That idea of indicating status or splendor on the head is the language that milliners speak.
    Stephen Jones, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Each piece owes a debt to the raw splendor of George Nakashima’s original slab coffee tables.
    Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Here, she would be dwarfed by its splendor for all eternity.
    New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • Pieces of 20th-century modern art were displayed in many of the rooms, which seemed a bit out of place, but didn’t detract from the palace’s splendor.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2023
  • This 10-time Tony Award winner offers a world of splendor and romance.
    oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Ready to enter a world of splendor and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur, and glory?
    Essence, 24 Nov. 2021

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