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1047 examples of Grand in a sentence

It's perfect, that's grand.
The tradition and grand narrative of Braddock is mostly comprised of stories of industrialists and trade unions.
In 1130, Geoffrey of Monmouth was a lowly cleric with grand ambitions.
And let's be frank: it's pretty easy to be skeptical about grand announcements coming out of the UN.
A grand piano, for example, can play 88 separate notes.
The hope was that a complete combination of Einstein's general theory of relativity, which is the theory of the universe at grand scales, with quantum mechanics, the theory of the universe at small scales, might provide a solution.
What if all of these 10 to the 500 different possible universes actually exist out there somewhere in some grand multiverse?
But we can see the difference between vocabulary alone and what makes a real language from a look at how Tolkien put together grand old Elvish, a conlang with several thousands words.
We didn't have any grand ambitions.
So instead of being grand opera, this opera will turn into what we're thinking of as personal opera.
And when I thought, at 14, that I had digested these grand ideas, I moved on to the speeches of iconic African statesmen like Burkina Faso's Thomas Sankara and Congo's Patrice Lumumba.
You must have the ability of these grand visions of the future.
Nightingale was born into a rather grand, very wealthy British family, who were horrified when she volunteered to work in military hospitals during the Crimean War.
This is a year when Einstein is basking in the glow of having discovered the special theory of relativity and decides to take on a new project, to try to understand fully the grand, pervasive force of gravity.
That wasn't some grand conspiracy.
And yes, soap operas are larger than life, drama on a grand scale, but our lives can be filled with as much intensity, and the stakes can feel just as dramatic.
The best chess players spend a lot of time not playing games of chess, which would be their performance zone, but trying to predict the moves grand masters made and analyzing them.
SW: So I heard it two days before the beginning of the Australian Open, which is one of the biggest grand slams.
May I just say, 23 grand slams to you.
True awe, a sense of wonder and insignificance in the face of something enormous and grand, is rare in our lives.
Over the next 35 years, five total solar eclipses will visit the continental United States, and three of them will be especially grand.
Some say it'll happen a lot faster as we discover grand new powerful theories of intelligence.
But what I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion.
Once a year we do a grand meet-up where the entire company comes together for a week.
Romance is a grand and beautiful and quirky thing.
But by the end of his grand performance of power and control, Prospero’s final lines see him humbled by his audience - and the power that they hold over his creations.
And Yamaha makes an incredible thing called the Disklavier Pro that looks like a nice grand piano there.
The material was generated in two years of work I did for the Secretary of Defense, thinking about a new national grand strategy for the United States.
What we have extant right now, at the beginning of this system, is the U.N. Security Council as a grand jury.
As you remember, at some point in the book for "2001," HAL realizes that the universe is too big, and grand, and profound for those really stupid astronauts.
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