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Spectacle Sentence Examples

  • You're making a spectacle of yourself.
  • While Dean enjoyed the spectacle of the exciting contest, he harbored no envy toward its participants.
  • Clear transparent rock-crystal is used for optical purposes and spectacle lenses.
  • As his plays show, the spectacle struck Antonio's observation, but he had to criticize with caution.
  • The crown prince, who was shaken by the spectacle of the battle, allowed himself to be drawn into a reply, and to be referred to Sir Hyde Parker.
  • During the fifty years since Crawford's Tenure of Office Act was passed in 1820, the country had been growing more and more familiar with the spectacle of corruption in high places.
  • A characteristic spectacle in winter is the tobogganing in the Humlegard on holidays.
  • In his absence he left Lucrezia as regent, offering the astounding spectacle of a pope's natural daughter in charge of the Holy See.
  • In retirement she could devote herself wholly to art and science, and the opportunity of astonishing the world by the unique spectacle of a great queen, in the prime of life, voluntarily resigning her crown, strongly appealed to her vivid imagination.
  • The sok presents a lively spectacle, especially upon Thursdays and Sundays.
  • The spectacle of an Eastern despot apparently advancing on the lines of European progress was in itself as astonishing as new.
  • The spectacle of the adoration of the pope at Bologna impressed him strongly in an anti-papal direction.
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