Sentence examples for make splendid from inspiring English sources
Mr Walker, a governor best known for curbing trade unions in Wisconsin, says that the success of Reagan, a former governor of California, shows that those who run states make splendid foreign-policy leaders, especially those with experience of biffing unions.
The sportswriter Red Smith once quipped that it was the kind of race that would make "splendid training for a man who expects to get trapped in a pasture with an enraged bull". In Helsinki, the event was assumed to be an easy gold-medal victory for the Soviets, who were represented by record-setting athlete Vladimir Kazantsev.
Graham Kitchener's showboating cock-up which cost Worcester a certain try and the late Bedford drop-goal attempt which momentarily appeared to have bounced back into play and wrecked the hosts' promotion ambitions will make splendid "What happened next" clips for years to come.
They make splendid companions for sushi.
Some entrepreneurs, in truth, would make splendid criminals or cult leaders.
"But we Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.
Salads made splendid openers.
She makes splendid meals for him, not just at dinnertime but also for lunch.
By which Mr. Plackenmeyer meant that the local rabbis made splendid political bosses.
One day a woman he knew told him the tweezers made splendid eyebrow pluckers.
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, as Anckarström, Amelia's husband, made splendid sounds but held himself aloof, as if giving a recital in costume.
