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"Pomp" in a Sentence (15 examples)
It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Tom celebrated his fortieth birthday the other day, without pomp or ceremony.
The new bishop was installed with much pomp and circumstance.
The King took the lovely maiden upon his horse and carried her to his palace, where the wedding was held with great pomp.
The new community center was inaugurated yesterday with pomp and circumstance.
Buckingham Palace is a symbol of pomp and ceremony.
"Thence Corybantian cymbals clashed and brayed / in praise of Cybele. In Ida's wood / her mystic rites in secrecy were paid, / and lions, yoked in pomp, their sovereign's car conveyed."
Lord Juss sat in the high seat midmost of the dais, with Goldry on his right in the seat of black opal, and on his left Spitfire, throned on the alexandrite. On the dais sat likewise those other lords of Demonland, and the guests of lower degree thronged the benches and the polished tables as the wide doors opened on their silver hinges, and the Ambassador with pomp and ceremony paced up the shining floor of marble and green tourmaline.
This movie doesn't have pomp or elements of spectacle, but for some reason I can watch it merely because of the scenery and sounds.
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'Tis a gross visible errour, which Tertullian teaches in his Book of Idolatry cap. 18. That all the marks of Dignity and Power, and all the ornaments annexed to Office, are forbid Christians, and that Jesus Christ hath plac'd all these things amongst the pomps of the Devil, since he himself appeared in a condition so far from all pomp and splendour.
The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
In its pomp Victoria had 17 platforms, but many of the through platforms were demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the Manchester Arena.
[…] a more beautiful expression of joy and thanksgiving than could have been exhibited by all the pomps of a Roman triumph.
pomp'd for those hard trifles
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