Definition of grandly in English:
grandly
adverb ˈɡrandliˈɡræn(d)li
In a proud, impressive, or ambitious manner.
the purchase of the painting was grandly announced
he bowed grandly before taking her hand
Example sentencesExamples
- These grandly conceived spaces, together with the smaller ancillary rooms, constituted an extraordinary museum of classical art.
- Mom gestures grandly, the motion eerily evocative of Dad.
- I don't even remember the last time I was so grandly entertained.
- Drivers who grandly sweep up to the entrance of the school find themselves being brusquely waved to the side of the road.
- A grandly arched passageway leads to the high-ceilinged gallery.
- Someone recently and rather grandly told me that we'd saved singing in Scotland.
- I was alone in a grandly furnished room.
- The grandly named "Surveyor of Highways" was in charge.
- The Brennans and their growing family lived rather grandly through the 1930s in the former private secretary's lodge in the Phoenix Park.
- "I have come for the shoes," she announced grandly. "Here is the money for them."
Definition of grandly in US English:
grandly
adverbˈɡræn(d)liˈɡran(d)lē
In a proud, impressive, or ambitious manner.
the purchase of the painting was grandly announced
he bowed grandly before taking her hand
Example sentencesExamples
- "I have come for the shoes," she announced grandly. "Here is the money for them."
- Mom gestures grandly, the motion eerily evocative of Dad.
- Drivers who grandly sweep up to the entrance of the school find themselves being brusquely waved to the side of the road.
- I don't even remember the last time I was so grandly entertained.
- A grandly arched passageway leads to the high-ceilinged gallery.
- The grandly named "Surveyor of Highways" was in charge.
- The Brennans and their growing family lived rather grandly through the 1930s in the former private secretary's lodge in the Phoenix Park.
- These grandly conceived spaces, together with the smaller ancillary rooms, constituted an extraordinary museum of classical art.
- I was alone in a grandly furnished room.
- Someone recently and rather grandly told me that we'd saved singing in Scotland.