SPACIOUS in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for SPACIOUS, such as:

1. Light colours create a feeling of spaciousness.
2. Our yard is spacious enough for a swimming pool.
3. They have moved to a more spacious residence on a hill top.
4. The spacious gardens are a special feature of this property.
5. There were besides a few dark closets and a spacious cellar.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPACIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spacious
 a.  wide, generous, or large in area or extent; sizable
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The force of contrast gave an added keenness to the luxury of lying once more in a soft-pillowed bed, and looking across a spacious sunlit room at a breakfast-table set invitingly near the fire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
2  She came out on the prairie, spacious under an arch of boldly cut clouds.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Washington gave her all the graciousness in which she had had faith: white columns seen across leafy parks, spacious avenues, twisty alleys.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  He now spoke of the long and painful route by which they had left those spacious grounds and happy villages, to come and battle against the enemies of their Canadian fathers.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
5  Eva's bed-room was a spacious apartment, which, like all the other rooms in the house, opened on to the broad verandah.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  At one extremity, this spacious room was lighted by the windows of the two towers, which formed a small recess on either side of the portal.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
7  Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42
8  It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
9  The house is filled with hum of voices eddying through the spacious chambers; lit lamps hang down by golden chainwork, and flaming tapers expel the night.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
10  I move on, and revisit the citadel and Priam's dwelling; where now in the spacious porticoes of Juno's sanctuary, Phoenix and accursed Ulysses, chosen sentries, were guarding the spoil.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
11  The king entertained them in his spacious colonnades; in the central hall they poured goblets of wine in libation, and held the cups while the feast was served on gold.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
12  Consequently his field becomes so spacious that he ends by having no rivals.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
13  The house was spacious and had rooms for the house serfs and apartments for visitors.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VIII
14  "There," said the sentinel, pointing over his shoulder to a spacious crypt, hollowed out of the rock, the lights from which shone into the passage through the large arched openings.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 114. Peppino.
15  There were besides a few dark closets and a spacious cellar.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
Example Sentence:
1  They have moved to a more spacious residence on a hill top.
2  Our yard is spacious enough for a swimming pool.
3  The spacious gardens are a special feature of this property.
4  Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
5  The apartment was spacious, in other words, and elegantly decorated, but it wasn't clear anyone actually lived there.
6  This spacious travel amenity kit lets you bring all the comforts of home.
7  John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old, large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage.
8  Light colours create a feeling of spaciousness.