Sentence examples for a spectacle one from inspiring English sources
From start to finish, it was quite a spectacle, one that may or may not have renewed the Olympics.
This was a spectacle one would have expected back in the gladiatorial combat of ancient Rome, not at a presidential debate".
But the canings themselves have evolved into a spectacle, one that draws hundreds to the middle of provincial capital Banda Aceh to jeer the accused and cheer the executioner.
As we gazed at it, somebody hissed "Here they come!" and the swishing got louder and then out of the mist burst a cloud, a swirling, eddying cloud drifting rapidly towards us, and the sound became a spectacle – one of the great wildlife spectacles of Britain.
The viewership figures mean that these annual movie awards are still chugging along as a spectacle one-third the size of the Super Bowl, almost as big as a good playoff game and down about 34 percent from their own contemporary ratings peak, in 1998, when "Titanic" helped deliver more than 57 million viewers.
In scene, an autopsy is performed on a suspected host before it breaks into a gory spectacle, one gut-busting transformation after another.
"It was a pitiful spectacle," one correspondent wrote, "to see these girls tumble down after the finish like dead sparrows".
It was an extraordinary spectacle, one that bosses with a sense of history ordered their young assistants to watch on the television set in the office, one that caused a stunned, lingering silence in hospital waiting rooms and diners and malls.
It is a quintessential Baroque spectacle, one that fell out of favor about a century ago.
Within their razzle-dazzle lay the makings of a crowd-pleasing spectacle, one that even attracted tourists who had no intention of spending a night there.
From his earliest days as commentator, Wogan positioned the British as bemused participants in a distinctly foreign, European spectacle, one in which the UK nonetheless enjoyed success and status.
