GRANDILOQUENCE in a Sentence

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Zdrzhinski, the officer with the long mustache, spoke grandiloquently of the Saltanov dam being "a Russian Thermopylae," and of how a deed ...

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grandiloquence
 n.  high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
Classic Sentence:
1  Zdrzhinski, the officer with the long mustache, spoke grandiloquently of the Saltanov dam being "a Russian Thermopylae," and of how a deed worthy of antiquity had been performed by General Raevski.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence:
1  The politician could never speak simply; she was always grandiloquent.