Get to know Splendours better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning.
Splendours meaning
plural of splendour
Using Splendours
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of splendour
- In the example corpus, splendours often appears in combinations such as: the splendours, splendours of.
Context around Splendours
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Splendours
- In this selection, "splendours" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, deco, twelve and boomerang stand out and add context to how "splendours" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include art deco splendours boomerang lessons and ended the splendours of renaissance. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "splendours" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with splendours
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
None of these splendours have any place in the work which Michelangelo created. (13 words)
The many incidents of murder, rape, and vandalism that followed ended the splendours of Renaissance Rome forever. (17 words)
But their usual propensity to laugh at the city’s notorious dysfunction and accept its warts along with its many splendours has gone missing. (24 words)
In these times of lockdown, it’s probably as close to travel as many of us will get for the moment but what a magnificent way to be treated to the splendours and less salubrious aspects of the world around us. (41 words)
Michael Portillo continues his amiably engaging rail trip, this week travelling through the “wet tropics” of the North Queensland coast, taking in everything from primal rainforest to Art Deco splendours, boomerang lessons and the Great Barrier Reef. (37 words)
In a third account, also by Petrus Olai, in Danmarks Tolv Herligheder ("Twelve Splendours of Denmark"), in splendour number nine, the same story is re-told almost verbatim, with a paragraph inserted correcting the year to 1219. (37 words)
Example sentences (6)
But their usual propensity to laugh at the city’s notorious dysfunction and accept its warts along with its many splendours has gone missing.
In these times of lockdown, it’s probably as close to travel as many of us will get for the moment but what a magnificent way to be treated to the splendours and less salubrious aspects of the world around us.
Michael Portillo continues his amiably engaging rail trip, this week travelling through the “wet tropics” of the North Queensland coast, taking in everything from primal rainforest to Art Deco splendours, boomerang lessons and the Great Barrier Reef.
In a third account, also by Petrus Olai, in Danmarks Tolv Herligheder ("Twelve Splendours of Denmark"), in splendour number nine, the same story is re-told almost verbatim, with a paragraph inserted correcting the year to 1219.
None of these splendours have any place in the work which Michelangelo created.
The many incidents of murder, rape, and vandalism that followed ended the splendours of Renaissance Rome forever.
Common combinations with splendours
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the splendours 2×
- splendours of 2×