Sentence examples for a rather splendid from inspiring English sources

Andrew Lawrence After a couple of less-than-impressive years, Andrew Lawrence came back with a rather splendid show.

As a result the windowsills now boast a rather splendid array of ferns that are particularly adept to thriving indoors.

Until, that is, Jagger, a rather splendid Irish setter who was second in his group, collapsed and died within hours of returning home.

Masseria Bianca, dating back to the late 1800s, is a rather splendid example of a restored Italian multi-roomed house composed of a series of "trulli".

Let's kick off with a rather splendid video of Queen Sofia's post-match appearance in the Spain dressing room following their semi-final win.

With the roads in a severe state of disrepair and the pitch at the national stadium in Harare worse than my local Blue Square South team (actually a rather splendid pitch), it's not going to happen.

"You get a more adventurous feel from a scratch pen," he says, remembering how a woman in France sent him a feather from a vulture's wing, that he sharpened into a quill – "rather splendid".

When he is in grooming mode, he tends to shellac his hair into a high, rather splendid, Little Richard-style pompadour, but today, as on most days in Haiti, the hair had been allowed to collapse into a dusty quiff.

There was a marked, and rather splendid, contrast between the opening of the event, with the huge razzamatazz of the Hillary Clinton roadshow and the penultimate event, where two hugely enthusiastic delegates from the Brazilian transparency hackers' group Thacker bounced around the stage highlighting their innovative projects using open data.

For most players a Test average of 31.32 would be tolerable, and a haul of six centuries rather splendid.

That would be bad news if you are a connoisseur or a collector, but it might be better news for those who have a case of something old - and rather splendid - tucked away at home and forgotten.