GRAND in a Sentence

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194 example sentences for GRAND, such as:

1. The party was a grand affair.
2. After the grand crisis, the grand test.
3. The grand newspapers were all very small.
4. The curtain opened to reveal the grand prize.
5. He acted as grand marshal of a stock car race.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRAND
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grand
 a.  large and impressive in size, scope, or extent
Classic Sentence: (171 in 12 pages)
1  All the dogs of his farm-yards formed a pack of hounds at need; his grooms were his huntsmen; and the curate of the village was his grand almoner.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In I
2  No one could say that the passage of that soul before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did not count for something in his approach to perfection.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
3  The shadow of the passions of the moment traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
4  It seemed to be a sort of rite with him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
5  A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the eyes which remain open.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY
6  The grand newspapers were all very small.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
7  About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the grand events of small districts had taken place.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKE...
8  There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
9  After the grand crisis, the grand test.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
10  When they arrived on the grand square, however, the man pointed out to him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy building.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
11  , the grand age; a theatre, the temple of Melpomene; the reigning family, the august blood of our kings; a concert, a musical solemnity; the General Commandant of the province, the illustrious warrior, who, etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
12  No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
13  Thenceforth, everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; for lucre instead of the general good.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
14  Its sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
15  Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
2  These hotels still offer the sort of service which were the hallmark of the grand days of travel.
3  The grand design of Europe's monetary union is already agreed.
4  They have already given evidence before a grand jury in Washington.
5  Last month, a federal grand jury began mulling evidence in the case.
6  He got through to the grand final of the competition.
7  The company's grand ambition was to become the first and biggest global airline.
8  The Oriental in Bangkok is the apotheosis of the grand hotel.
9  A broad avenue of lime trees led up to a grand entrance with huge oak doors.
10  His grand design was to connect up every academic institution in the world.
11  The party was a grand affair.
12  We banqueted the visiting president in grand style.
13  They're so grand these days that they probably don't talk to ordinary mortals like us any more.
14  He acted as grand marshal of a stock car race.
15  The curtain opened to reveal the grand prize.