GORGEOUS in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for GORGEOUS, such as:

1. And you look gorgeous when you are mad.
2. We will picnic near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday.
3. Blood on the whiteness of a tablecloth might be gorgeous.
4. The gorgeous words,weak language,actually cannot replace what.
5. There was a gorgeous talk on Sunday evening, when the conversation drifted again to love.

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 Meanings and Examples of GORGEOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gorgeous
 a.  dazzlingly beautiful; magnificent
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  And you look gorgeous when you are mad.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Her dramatic instinct was roused by the choice of subjects, and the gorgeous reproductions of historic dress stirred an imagination which only visual impressions could reach.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  Blood on the whiteness of a tablecloth might be gorgeous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold, raked somewhere out of the heart of gorgeous hills, whence, east and west, over golden sands, the head-waters of many a Pactolus flows.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
5  Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
6  There was something extremely gorgeous about the appearance of the table, an effect of splendor conveyed by a cover of pale yellow satin under strips of lace-work.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
7  Seated, as in life, with his form and limbs arranged in grave and decent composure, Uncas appeared, arrayed in the most gorgeous ornaments that the wealth of the tribe could furnish.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
8  Like Damocles at his celebrated banquet, Rebecca perpetually beheld, amid that gorgeous display, the sword which was suspended over the heads of her people by a single hair.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  Gurth, gallantly apparelled, attended as esquire upon his young master whom he had served so faithfully, and the magnanimous Wamba, decorated with a new cap and a most gorgeous set of silver bells.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
10  There was a gorgeous talk on Sunday evening, when the conversation drifted again to love.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  Stacks Gate, as seen from the highroad, was just a huge and gorgeous new hotel, the Coningsby Arms, standing red and white and gilt in barbarous isolation off the road.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  It was the one season of the year, and the one weather of the season, in which the heath was gorgeous.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool
13  At nine o'clock, one morning late in July Gatsby's gorgeous car lurched up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of melody from its three noted horn.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  Gatsby indicated a gorgeous, scarcely human orchid of a woman who sat in state under a white plum tree.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  His gorgeous pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps and I thought of the night when I first came to his ancestral home three months before.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence:
1  Just one word of warning: a Swiss team has actually qualified for the World Cup - so those Swiss men, gorgeous or otherwise, might all be watching the match.
2  We will picnic near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday.
3  Please show some of the lovely detail on the coat - the embroidery is gorgeous.
4  The gorgeous words,weak language,actually cannot replace what.
5  I don't long for luxurious life and gorgeous appearance , but I need a complete in habitation for sentiment.
6  In the sun, in the most gorgeous die surrounded by next die,but be elated Mi open to the mandala.
7  Still, he was sufficiently touched by his aunt's grief too long to rush out from under the bed and overwhelm her with joy--and the theatrical gorgeousness of the thing appealed strongly to his nature, too, but he resisted and lay still.