How to Use splendor in a Sentence

splendor

noun

• The palace had lost much of its original splendor.
• 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 best way to appreciate the Bay Area’s splendor is on your own two feet.
  — Carey Jones, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 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
• 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
• Down the coast from that natural splendor, oil strikes of 1923 would bring in about two-thirds of a million gallons a day.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• There’s no clear answer to those questions, but that doesn’t diminish the splendor of this year’s crop of movies.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 2 Dec. 2022
• Cartoon by Emily Flake About an hour into this splendor, the screen goes dark.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• That idea of indicating status or splendor on the head is the language that milliners speak.
  — Stephen Jones, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2022
• Here, she would be dwarfed by its splendor for all eternity.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• Pieces of 20th-century modern art were displayed in many of the rooms, which seemed a bit out of place, but didn’t detract from the palace’s splendor.
  — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2023
• This 10-time Tony Award winner offers a world of splendor and romance.
  — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2022
• Ready to enter a world of splendor and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur, and glory?
  — Essence, 24 Nov. 2021
• All these and more arose in old-fashioned splendor, the Royal Enclosure spreading out at the far end of the long market street.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• Bey captures the spoiled splendor of the landscape in the same way that Parks allowed the power of place to be a fully present character in his work.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• Hike the easy one-mile Osgood Trail to take in the autumnal splendor from the summit of Blue Hill, but go early to avoid crowds of leaf peepers.
  — Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
• The lounge of the Aurora, brought back to its midcentury splendor.
  — CBS News, 26 June 2022
• So does fall, when the deciduous splendor of the park unveils in washes of gold, red, and umber.
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
• Soak up the splendor via one of Shenandoah's wildflower vantage points.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2022
• But in early fall and late spring, the splendor of this backcountry is hardly lessened.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2021
• Three pools, two restaurants, a beachfront bar, and a putting green give everyone a place to while away the afternoon and take in the splendor of a sunny day at the beach.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 30 June 2023
• Despite her vast wealth and the public splendor that adorned her reign, the Queen had the instinctive prudence of a generation raised in a time of war.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2022
• But many trees had resisted time and maintained their splendor.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024