sumptuous
IPA: sˈʌmptʃwʌs
adjective
- Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.
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Examples of "sumptuous" in Sentences
- The design is beautiful and sumptuous.
- Sumptuous figures recall the vineyard setting.
- The interiors are in a sumptuous classical style.
- He said, “What shall we call your sumptuous creation?”
- At the end, Nastenka and Ivan have a sumptuous wedding.
- The overall look of the film is at once spare and sumptuous.
- As always, sumptuous feasts were held to celebrate the occasion.
- After a sumptuous Christmas feast, the family was ready to sleep.
- His sumptuous mansion was plundered during the plague by thieves.
- The furnishing and fittings of the two Chinese restaurants are sumptuous.
- Then she robed her in sumptuous robes and set apart for her a place in the
- Konstantin Thon was responsible for the sumptuous decoration of the interiors.
- They live in sumptuous quarters, with beautiful flowers in large vases, and have a butler, Alfred.
- On a superficial note, I loved all the beautiful tracking shots of paintings in sumptuous widescreen.
- Then he made peace between them and clad them all in sumptuous robes of honour and hanselled them with precious jewels of land and sea.
- Then he bade bring forth money and apparel and clad them in sumptuous robes of honour and showered largesse upon them, wherefore they all loved him and obeyed him.
- Not only English society, but Indian princes and princesses, American millionaires, and Continental aristocrats attended this ball attired in sumptuous costumes worth thousands upon thousands of pounds.
- Nick Gevers said it best: "(the novel) tells in sumptuous claustrophobic detail just how alien -- and alienated -- a human society might become, portraying a mighty far-future city state driven by absolute standards of meritocracy turning against itself in hysteria and bloodshed"