Definition: 1. A sight or view that is very impressive to look at. 2. Something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight). 3. An elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale.
Use 'spectacle' in a sentence:
1. The city after the earthquake was a terrible spectacle.
2. The small print has forced me, years before my time, to buy spectacles.
3. The spectacle has been repeated elsewhere.
4. She stood there and surveyed the spectacle.
5. As if just riding a unicycle didn't look funny enough, add mallets and balls and you've got a truly wacky spectacle.
6. Viewed from the top of Mount Tai, the sunrise was indeed a spectacle.
7. Instead, the fireworks and the spectacle they created were all designed to encourage the public to believe in the supreme authority of the king.
8. He is a small, cuddly man with spectacles.
9. Rhythmic gymnastics, although less publicized than its artistic cousin, is perhaps an even greater spectacle.
10. It was really an absurd spectacle.
11. June 2004's transit of Venus was thus more of an astronomical spectacle than a scientifically important event.
12. A magnificent, useful, and charming spectacle.
13. "The ferocity of this spectacle," Machiavelli concludes, "left the people at once satisfied and stupefied."
14. 94,000 people turned up for the spectacle.
15. Don't make a spectacle of yourself.
16. Desirous of knowing something about the operations, I stood and watched the spectacle.
17. Snake charmers are a spectacle in India.
18. It is a spectacle, for everyone. I do not care about that.
19. In fact this spectacle is very impressive.
20. She took off her spectacles.
21. This is a pair of spectacles for nearsighted persons.
22. He looked at me over the tops of his spectacles.
23. In Los Angeles a pedestrian is a rare spectacle.
24. He tends to view the world through rose-coloured spectacles.
25. People are looking at the past with rose-tinted spectacles.
26. The crowd was dazzled by the spectacle.
27. If the weather threatens rain, the great spectacle will take place at eleven o'clock in the morning.
28. Everybody was talking, and intent upon the grisly spectacle before them.
29. Sunlight glinted on his spectacles.
30. On the bridge of his hooked nose was a pair of gold rimless spectacles.
31. We remenber that splendid spectacle forever.
32. The spectacle of Sakharov standing his ground and speaking his mind gave me hope.
33. It was a spectacle not to be missed.
34. Arrived at the dreadful place, he wormed his small body through the crowd and saw the dismal spectacle.
35. He took off his spectacles and rubbed frantically at the lens.
36. Galileo did not invent the telescope, but on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he quickly built his own device from an organ pipe and spectacle lenses.
37. The sunset was a stunning spectacle.
38. He was wearing new spectacles with gold wire frames.
39. The wide plain, with thousands of animals on the move, was an awesome spectacle.
40. I remember the sad spectacle of her standing in her wedding dress, covered in mud.
41. What happens when the two interests collide will make a fascinating spectacle.
42. He wears huge spectacles with thick tortoiseshell frames.
43. A curious spectacle was witnessed.
44. The spectacle of the former naval officers washing their dirty linen in public was distinctly embarrassing.
45. Sitting pole-axed on the sofa, Mahoney stared in astonishment at the spectacle before him.
46. The carnival parade was a magnificent spectacle.
