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1. The Parthenon is a magnificent structure.
2. He hit a magnificent shot with a nine iron.
3. The teams responded magnificently to the challenge.
4. The magnificent scene of the waterfall is pleasant.
5. Such magnificent and beautiful things did not appear real.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAGNIFICENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
magnificent
 a.  grand or noble in thought or deed; outstanding of its kind
Classic Sentence: (135 in 10 pages)
1  Candide, driven from terrestrial paradise, walked a long while without knowing where, weeping, raising his eyes to heaven, turning them often towards the most magnificent of castles which imprisoned the purest of noble young ladies.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In II
2  "You must have a vast and magnificent estate," said Candide to the Turk.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXX
3  He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the infinite, and, through light, produce beauty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
4  The Bishop alone remained; he filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
5  A squadron of magnificent body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S
6  Of her eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and that they had magnificent lashes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
7  A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
8  A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the genius of man with the powers of nature.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
9  It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds which exist in the woods there.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
10  The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the Thenardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, and magnificent objects of tin.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
11  Such magnificent and beautiful things did not appear real.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
12  Long, full curtains hung from the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE
13  He was kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind would have been magnificent.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN
14  Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
15  One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
Example Sentence:
1  Its magnificent proportions make this palace unique among the buildings of the world.
2  The magnificent scene of the waterfall is a perfect delight to the eye.
3  He dribbled past two defenders and scored a magnificent goal.
4  Unbelievably, our Government are now planning to close this magnificent institution.
5  He hit a magnificent shot with a nine iron.
6  The magnificent scene of the waterfall is pleasant.
7  The Parthenon is a magnificent structure.
8  This was not only a game to decide which team will win magnificent prizes, it was also a game where the Mayor will decide who will be final champion.
9  The emperor issued an edict decreeing that everyone should come see him model his magnificent new clothes.
10  The picture he presented was burned into my mind with a kind of magnificence, a certain splendor that was strangely moving.
11  The teams responded magnificently to the challenge.