Sentence examples for few splendid from inspiring English sources

In the Connecticut town where the writer lives, there are a few splendid machines still in daily operation.

There also were a few splendid chips, including one at 15, where he came out short from the bunker, and at 18, where he came out of a swale in front of the green to 2 feet.

There are a few splendid cartoon set pieces — including a funny, thrilling bee's-eye tour of New York, from Central Park flora to the surface of a tennis ball to the inside of a speeding car — that show off the latest computer animation techniques.

The next few weeks offer splendid opportunities for brokering deals and finding dynamic fellow travellers.

After a few months of splendid ­isolation, Byrd felt able to draw some conclusions.

THERE are few foods as splendid as a perfectly ripe watermelon in its most natural state, sliced in wedges and served outdoors, so you can spit out the seeds and let the juice run in streams down your arms.

He would never know about the breathtaking discovery that would be announced just a few years later a splendid confirmation of another prediction made several decades earlier.

It will sound splendid, and few of their audience will know the difference.

A few more: Dennis Adams's splendid video, in which he hands out stills from a film about a girl being chased through an orphanage, mixes suspense and humor in a way even Hitchcock might envy.

Yet over the course of a few decades developers created splendid neighborhoods all over the city: working-class apartments in Alphabet City, brownstones on Strivers' Row in Harlem and solid middle-class apartments on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn and in Jackson Heights, Queens.

He insists too often on being clever; he can go on too long and wreck what begins and continues for quite a few stanzas as a splendid poem written in ballad meter, "The Summer People," or he can choke a poem with detail, as he does in "Yánnina".