How to Use splendor in a Sentence

splendor

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  • The palace had lost much of its original splendor.
  • As the city grew in size, the triumphs grew in splendor.
    — National Geographic, 10 July 2019
  • But that's just the beginning of all the fall splendor in the area.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2024
  • And the tradition and splendor stretched back 900 years, to the time of William the Conqueror.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 May 2023
  • Ready to see the palace in all its splendor for yourself?
    — Geof Wheelwright, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Your best bet for viewing its splendor is to head to the dark of the mountains or seashore.
    — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The more than 200 images in the book display the splendor of nature.
    — Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The passage from grid to off-grid in the San Luis Valley takes place in a scene of alpine splendor.
    — Ted Conover, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Both were soon stripped of their Olympic titles for doping, but the splendor of the venue was not in doubt.
    — Chris Lehourites, Star Tribune, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The best way to appreciate the Bay Area’s splendor is on your own two feet.
    — Carey Jones, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Hilltop trails above the plots offer views and photo ops of the splendor.
    — National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Yet in the town of Addison, there’s splendor beyond the grass.
    — Steven Lindsey, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2020
  • In this splendor the birds are boisterous, as are the people.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The splendor of high-altitude lakes awaits those who put in the legwork.
    — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 6 June 2020
  • Chicago, 1959, in the junk pile known as Comiskey, rotting in splendor and the stink of beer and urine spilled last Tuesday.
    — Stephen Hunter, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The splendor of the album covers is lost on those tiny 5-by-5½-inch boxes.
    — Ed Symkus, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • In solitary splendor, the SigAlert even has its own traffic app, so put that in your pipe and smoke it, Waze.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The star’s bold charisma is matched only by the splendor of the sets in Joe Wright’s film adaptation.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The nights are getting longer, the humidity is lower and the splendors of the summer sky grace the evening hours.
    — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The splendor of the garden was a reward that Wiseman gave to himself and to the audience.
    — David Denby, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • As seen in a quick clip, the King and Queen even popped into the ballroom before the banquet to check out the splendor for themselves.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But even the East Coast has a sprinkling of its own geothermal splendor.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The Topaz Room was still heroically clinging to the last threads of this fading splendor.
    — Adrienne Miller, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Areas around water always seem to be the first to show off the season’s splendor.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Black people, in this telling, could be proud of their roots in the ancient kingdom that built some of the world’s greatest splendors.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • Yes, part of the splendor of the Horizon games is its ludicrous setting.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
  • This is the place to shed your sins, a place of peace and solitude amid nature’s breathtaking splendor.
    — Jordan Riefe, Orange County Register, 25 Nov. 2019
  • With all the opulence and splendor of this city, there is very little good breeding to be found.
    — Fox News, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Tennessee's splendor will be on display in a new postage stamp coming in 2025.
    — Adam Tamburin, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Velázquez's Queen Mariana of Austria is one of the artist’s most accomplished portraits, depicting the 18-year-old monarch in full splendor.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024

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