MARVELOUS in a Sentence

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141 example sentences for MARVELOUS, such as:

1. We paused to marvel at the view.
2. He certainly is a marvellous actor.
3. It has been a marvellous experience.
4. He had never seen any one so marvellous.
5. These dogs have a marvelous sense of smell.

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 Meanings and Examples of MARVELOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
marvelous
 a.  wonderful; extraordinarily good
Classic Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  And Agafea Mihalovna will give us that marvelous herb-brandy.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 17
2  Levin knew too that Kitty had strengthened his hope by accounts of the marvelous recoveries she had heard of.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
3  He positively forgot where he was, and not even hearing what was said, he could not take his eyes off the marvelous portrait.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 9
4  And he could get work out of Pork, which was, to Scarlett, a marvelous thing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  But it is no such marvelous feat to exhibit the feats of so dull a beast; though, for that matter, too, a bear may be overacted.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
6  A thoroughly experienced French maid produces a really marvellous result in a very brief space of time.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In THIRD ACT
7  It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
8  The world is wide, and has many marvellous people in it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
9  Hallward painted away with that marvellous bold touch of his, that had the true refinement and perfect delicacy that in art, at any rate comes only from strength.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  He was a marvellous type, too, this lad, whom by so curious a chance he had met in Basil's studio, or could be fashioned into a marvellous type, at any rate.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
11  Any one you love must be marvellous, and any girl who has the effect you describe must be fine and noble.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
12  I loved you because you were marvellous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
13  It has been a marvellous experience.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
14  He had never seen any one so marvellous.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
15  He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
Example Sentence:
1  Queen Victoria is a marvelous ship best suited to well-traveled guests.
2  These dogs have a marvelous sense of smell.
3  It's one of the most marvelous special effects in recent memory, because Lee insisted the animal not be the least bit cuddly.
4  He certainly is a marvellous actor.
5  This painting is a marvellous example of her work.
6  That's a marvellous description, Mrs Drummond.
7  I've heard she's a marvellous player but I've never seen her in action.
8  We had a marvellous meal at that restaurant you recommended - incidentally, I must give you the number of a similar one I know.
9  We paused to marvel at the view.
10  The robot is a marvel of modern engineering.
11  Constructed from enough concrete to pave a motorway from New York to San Francisco - this colossal barrier is touted as a symbol of man's mastery over nature and a marvel of 20th Century engineering.
12  It was the most stunning surprise of the decade, and so profound was the sensation that it lifted the new hero up to the judicial one's altitude, and the school had two marvels to gaze upon in place of one.
13  Watching the weight lifter heave the barbell to shoulder height and then boost it overhead, we marveled at his prodigious strength.
14  Her fellow members marveled at her seemingly infinite energy.
15  Their voices blend marvelously as they sing in chorus.