spectacle

How To Use spectacle In A Sentence

• In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles.
• The stunts are staged to increase the spectacle, so that when cars pile into each other or toy robots battle, there is an intricate detail and near artistic quality.
• The sea was its usual calm blue, a glassy liquid surface stretching till it fused with the horizon in a spectacle of colour.
• The result is a species of amphitheatric arena, in which any of the dramatic exhibitions, that are so pleasing to this spectacle-loving nation, may be enacted. Recollections of Europe
• So the image of the bespectacled fuddy-duddy in his dusty library is a straw man: I would hazard that print publishing experts are actually on the cutting edge of new media. Publishing’s not as out of it as you think
• It was a strange spectacle to see the two former enemies shaking hands and slapping each other on the back.
• Both as a pointer to the future and as a spectacle in its own right, the Championships have produced a quality of football that had at least one viewer occasionally leaping from his armchair to applaud the action.
• In a manuscript written in 1299 by Pissazzo, the author says: "I find myself so pressed by age that I can neither read nor write without those glasses they call spectacles, lately invented, to the great advantage of poor old men when their sight grows weak. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
• Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years. Monster of Marriage
• Over time, companies competed with one another in presenting ‘grand’ spectacles.