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UK
/ɡɹˈændli/
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[ US /ˈɡɹændɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹændɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a grand manner
the mansion seemed grandly large by today's standards
How To Use grandly In A Sentence
- Keep the artichoke in a bowl of water with a lemon squeezed into it, (rather grandly called acidulated water), this stops the heart from blackening when it is exposed.
- Before long he found that there would be no sea this way: nor anything but shops, houses, a cinema with an imposing Victorian front grandly labelled ASSEMBLY ROOMS, and the slate-roofed lychgate of a church. Greenwitch
- I wrote a blogpost called grandly "Why People Are Conservative" once, where I mentioned this very point, Pogo. Why are libertarians so interested in philosophy?
- Appoint Chen Danian to be official of company presiding operation grandly ( COO ).
- But after intermission Maazel and the Philharmonic turned to Sibelius, which predictably got a thorough workout -- what with all the huffing and puffing, harumphing and galumphing of its broadly built themes, its grandly simple, architectural layout. Donna Perlmutter: Maazel to the Podium -- Still Collecting Orchestras
- “Congratulations to you all, Butterflies, for you have this term risen from bottom place to second, and you were very nearly top,” declares Duckworth Butterfly housemaster Mr. Valentine Corrado in the December 1927 issue, adding grandly, as if reflecting on the outcome of a military battle, “to the very end it was uncertain whether you or the Duckworth Grasshoppers would triumph.” Storyteller
- He was a gay, mad young dog, grandly careless of his largess, fearless as a lion's whelp, lithe and beautiful as a leopard, and mad, a trifle mad of the deviltries and whimsies that tickled in that fine brain of his. CHAPTER XIII
- This grandly titled traditional animation from DreamWorks centres on an untamed horse in the old Wild West which is captured by the army and harshly broken in to join the cavalry.
- Dumb, cloddish things are announced grandly, as though they were meaningful observations about the human condition.
- Someone recently and rather grandly told me that we'd saved singing in Scotland.