grandly

How To Use grandly In A Sentence

• Grandcourt's importance as a subject of this realm was of the grandly passive kind which consists in the inheritance of land. Daniel Deronda
• Presiding over it all and exemplifying the liberal spirit is the imposing multi - faith Rockefeller chapel whose 72-bell carillon rings out grandly on summer nights.
• My dad installed wood panelling inside and from then on the shed was known rather grandly as'the summer house '. Times, Sunday Times
• Robert Graves, leonine, ascended grandly and delivered hilarious impromptu remarks before declaiming a poem.
• He liked grandly to have the notion fathered on himself; and his complacency of course was suggestive of the hakim's trustworthiness. In The Time Of Light
• Furthermore, as grandly theatrical as Showtime may be, with its massive yet weightless clouds of sumi ink, it is no more so than Christmas Day, another big canvas that looks even bigger than it is.
• The Brennans and their growing family lived rather grandly through the 1930s in the former private secretary's lodge in the Phoenix Park.
• But first came the singing societies of Herisau, and forced their way into the centre of the throng, where they sang, simply yet grandly, the songs of Appenzell. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
• Four weeks later, I meet Andy Burnham (66/1 at Ladbrokes) in Glasgow at the start of a campaign-closing British tour aboard what his people have rather grandly called a battlebus, whose expense may or may not have been covered by a recent £10,000 campaign donation from the Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher. Labour leadership: The contenders
• The proliferation of chat rooms and discussion boards, including our own, tends to encourage investors to talk grandly of all the new and exciting possibilities that a ‘dematerialising’ economy can offer.