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Six example sentences with grandiloquent, each labelled with its topic.
His grandiloquent prose piles up thunder and marble where a plain sentence about a rainy afternoon would serve better.
Literature
The candidate's grandiloquent speech promised a golden century, yet never mentioned how the bridge would actually be paid for.
Politics
The mansion is grandiloquent, stacking columns, domes, and gilded urns on a house with only four bedrooms.
Architecture
The pitch deck was grandiloquent, promising to reinvent human connection, when the product was a calendar with a chat box.
Startups
The symphony's finale is grandiloquent, piling brass on organ on choir, where a single quiet chord would have said more.
Music
The film's grandiloquent narration calls a small-town bakery a monument to the human spirit at least twice.
Movies
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