(a.) Possessing or exhibiting majesty; of august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand.
Example Sentences:
(1) To lose the Sundarbans would be to move a step closer to the extinction of these majestic animals," said ZSL tiger expert Sarah Christie.
(2) Thailand’s monarchy is protected by some of the world’s strictest lese-majeste laws.
(3) On a clear day you can see the Timahoe round tower to the south, the Wicklow mountains to the east and the Slieve Bloom mountains to the west, but even when the skies are hazy, the views are majestic.
(4) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
(5) His narrative has the simple directness of the finest English prose: the overall effect is both intimate and majestic Perhaps he was lucky.
(6) Retail sales for the 10 weeks to 4 January at shops open a year or more were up more than 7% and total sales across the business rose 12%, Majestic said in a trading update.
(7) What an incredible contrast between the passionate compassion so emotively expressed in Britain and the ruthless bloodlust in Japan, where tens of thousands of dolphins are killed with spears on beaches every year and where crowds cheer the departure of a huge mechanised fleet whose objective is the mass slaughter of these majestic mammals in the Antarctic whale sanctuary.
(8) Deep inside these caves, however, their minds moved to different matters and artists concentrated instead on the more majestic animals – mammoths and woolly rhinos – that then populated the Dordogne.
(9) The Ned Waihopai River Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (£9.99, Waitrose ; Majestic ) There's all the pungent verdant grass-and-gooseberry of classic Kiwi sauvignon here to match with asparagus, plus the generosity of fruit and limey acidity that will work just as well with a mildly spicy and herby Vietnamese or Thai stir-fry.
(10) Or dream of a Wales where the majestic crane breeds for the first time in 400 years.
(11) They were each charged with one count of lese majeste linked to the play, which marked the 40th anniversary of a pro-democracy student protest at the university that was crushed by the military regime in October 1973.
(12) Majestic appointed Gormley when it bought his Naked Wines online business two months ago.
(13) The sky was blue and crisp and Aden’s volcanic hills sat majestically over the water.
(14) Majestic Wine has scrapped its minimum six-bottle purchase as new chief executive Rowan Gormley seeks to lure back customers to the ailing chain.
(15) I come across all features of rural life – from getting stuck behind a tractor to having herds of deer majestically leap across the road in front of me.
(16) Majestic has got a very compelling proposition driven by customer service but we’ve got to compete on price.” Majestic’s house broker, Investec, cut its estimates for pre-tax profits by 6% to £23m in the year to 31 March and by 8% for the following year.
(17) It’s a magical landscape, then suddenly the Indian Ocean opens up, and nestled between majestic cliffs is Coffee Bay.
(18) Demand has just skyrocketed in the past few months,” McCullough says, adding that in a Majestic Wine store in Guildford his firm’s gin accounted for one third of all spirits sales recently.
(19) The hearing was attended by five members of his victim's family, who, with majestic magnanimity, were there to petition for his death sentence to be commuted.
(20) Gormley said it would take three years to revive Majestic.
Regal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway.
(n.) A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Example Sentences:
(1) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(2) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(3) Some European officials, including senior British figures, argue that the gains in efficiency achieved by appointing an international envoy with vice regal authority would be outweighed by the Kabul government's further loss of legitimacy.
(4) Once humans have gained "total mastery over morphological genetics", post-60,000 years from now, we'll be tweaking our children's DNA so that they're born with straight noses, regal lines and perfect facial symmetry.
(5) That disconcerting height, always looming, regally.
(6) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
(7) An event like the Golden Globes puts movie stars in a regal position.
(8) "He regaled me with some anecdotes of BBC inefficiency.
(9) When his deal to buy Leeds was confirmed, he invited journalists to his lawyers’ office in London, regaling the assembled crowd with outlandish tales of pot-washing in 1970s England and sincerely inviting a reporter to play with his rock band in Sardinia.
(10) The top five cinema chains – Regal Entertainment, AMC Entertainment, Cinemark, Carmike Cinemas and Cineplex Entertainment – have all dropped plans to screen the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter .
(11) But reason will be no barrier to more of the sort of visionless and destructive dogma the Australian prime minister regaled the loggers with in Parliament House this week.
(12) He said he was continuing to try to ease tense relations with large cinema chains, such as AMC and Regal Entertainment, which had refused to screen The Interview after the hackers made threats of violence .
(13) An hour later, Obama and Trump will be joined by Vice-President Joe Biden, his successor Mike Pence and their spouses for a cup of coffee or tea in the White House’s regal Blue Room.
(14) As the wine flowed Humphrey, who had lived all his life in Oxford and knew all the skeletons in all the cupboards of the city, regaled us with increasingly scandalous stories of town and gown in his wonderfully clear, enthusiastic - and carrying - voice.
(15) At times Clinton projected an almost regal bearing.
(16) At a rally with her husband in Spartanburg, South Carolina, last weekend, she regaled the crowd with nothing more revelatory than the promise that her husband “will be the best president”.
(17) Throughout the convention, relatives and business associates lined up to regale the audience with tales of the nominee’s financial acumen.
(18) In the formal photograph, King Hamad was a diplomatic distance away from the Queen, though that was because the seating appeared to be arranged on length of regal service.
(19) No one could’ve been more suitable for this role than he, who bubbled away his evenings in Simpson’s in the Strand or the Cafe Royal, who spent royally when he had money and borrowed regally when he didn’t, and whose contacts with the working class – with the exception of servants – were at once amatory and pecuniary.
(20) December 24, 2016 William Regal (@RealKingRegal) Sad to hear of the passing of Rick Parfitt of Status Quo.Wether you liked them or not,if you are British you knew them.They had a great run.