Spectacle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPECTACLE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a sight, show, pageant
• a visually striking performance or display
• an event or scene regarded in terms of its visual impact
• strange, interesting, or ridiculous sight
• Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock.
• A spy-glass; a looking-glass.
• An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
• Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight.
• something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight)
• an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale
• a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of\' yourself
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• something exhibited to view as unusual, notable, or entertaining; an eye-catching or dramatic public display; an object of curiosity or contempt

Words related to SPECTACLE

spectacles16

Words that contain SPECTACLE

spectacled17 spectacles16 bespectacled21 unspectacled19 superspectacle22 superspectacles23

How to use SPECTACLE in a sentence

• Jack was all eyes and ears for the spectacle the country presented.
• While the elder lady gave a divided mind to the strange panorama, Merry watched everything eagerly, amused and interested by this spectacle of preparation.
• With sickening horror Doctor Danvers turned away from the awful spectacle.
• The Vestal virgins assist at this spectacle, and from one of them the victor in the games receives a garland, as the recompense of his prowess.
• At that distance they had witnessed the terrific spectacle, but they could not see the cub.
• She was only Barbara Marshall, thrilled by a noble spectacle.
• It has been well observed, that no spectacle is so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
• Such a spectacle as the Tiger upon the platform George was wont in after days to declare he never did see.
• I remember this spectacle as one of the most impressive I have witnessed in my long experience of Alpine scenery.
• This month, no day, scarcely an hour, has passed unmarked by some showy spectacle or some exciting piece of news.
• Here was the spectacle of a republican empire, and an emperor gathering power while he affected to disdain it.
• I never saw a spectacle so stately, so solemn a show in my life before, and was much less tired of the long continued march, than were my Roman Catholic companions.
• Many of the inhabitants had left as soon as the musketry fire began, but the slopes behind it soon presented a sad spectacle.
• Each expresses, by a gesture, the wonder, joy, rapture, or admiration aroused by the spectacle.
• By gratifying the common human instinct for spectacle and drama the monarchy has gained the popular affections.
• I went a little apart, towards the source, and came upon a most appalling spectacle.
• Ten thousand years of peace would fail to produce a spectacle of so great virtue.
• In the midst of the battle he views it with a sort of ironical detachment, as if lifted above himself by the sheer aesthetic spectacle.
• As yet it seemed like some grand holiday spectacle rather than the coming of a struggle for life or death.
• He did not expect to do much smiling upon his own account, that day, and he was therefore grateful for the opportunity to behold the spectacle before him.
• He had before him all day long in John Keble a spectacle which was absolutely new to him.
• All through the night the windows of heaven were open, as if weeping over the spectacle of two hundred thousand men preparing to butcher each other.
• Lizy-sur-Ourq, which we reached in the late forenoon, presented a more animated, though hardly more pleasing spectacle.
• I lift my eyes and take in the whole spectacle together.
• The whole party in motion towards the unknown interior, and prepared for sea or land, was to me a most gratifying spectacle.
• That spectacle calls for notice in the present work on account of its influence on the destinies of China.
• The convention as a spectacle was immensely diverting, but she had her misgivings about it as a transaction in history.
• Or would have done so, had the spectacle of him in that very occupation not been so familiar.

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