Synonym: display, exhibition, pageant, show, sight. Similar words: spectacular, obstacle, aspect, suspect, spectrum, prospect, inspector, introspect. Meaning: ['spektəkl] 
n. 1. something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight) 2. an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale 3. a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself.
n. 1. something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight) 2. an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale 3. a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself. 
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(121) For this was the only spectacle that looked to the future and not to the past.
(122) For too long, we have stared from the moon in reproachful silence at this spectacle.
(123) Second, television does not turn trials into a public event but into a public spectacle.
(124) With the winter season at its height, thousands crowded into the two Niagara communities to witness the spectacle.
(125) The mortals seemed miserable and the children cruel and now there was nothing left of the spectacle.
(126) Unique spectacle means a lot at this festival, but is hardly ever at the expense of artistic quality.
(127) It was a grandiose spectacle, and one that stirred popular emotion.
(128) But was it somehow implicit in the spectacle, the spotlights, and the theatrical production values?
(129) This is one response to a desperate search for space and spectacle which is increasingly being denied in the United Kingdom.
(130) Beta is a wide pair; it makes up a lovely spectacle in binoculars, and is in a rich field.
(131) It was not a heartening spectacle.
(132) She shrank back from the horrifying spectacle.
(133) The tribal dance was a spectacle of barbaric splendour.
(134) IT HAS BEEN a most disillusioning spectacle.
(135) The resulting spectacle was killingly comical.
(136) Such a spectacle is a boon to the moujik.
(137) It was a spectacle of warm - blooded humanity.
(138) Christmas has become a commercialized spectacle.
(139) This edifying spectacle was the final event of the Governor's ball.
(140) Watching this multicultural spectacle these days it's hard to believe that the first New York marathon.
(141) But at least the unedifying spectacle of comrades in Christ tearing strips off each other over gay sex will vanish from the headlines for a bit.
(142) The seasonal migration of animals in southern Sudan is a spectacle to rival the flow of animals across Tanzania's Serengeti Plain.
(143) As the emerged from her drifting cloud of gun smoke with the water churned to foam beneath her bow, her flags colour(Sentencedict.com), she presented a more majestic spectacle than Stockholmers had ever seen before.
(144) Desirous of knowing something about the operations, I stood and watched the spectacle.
(145) This too is the product of contradiction – the pinnacles at the top of each tower are not pure capitalist spectacle but the result of state planning edicts, to stop extra floors being built on top.
(146) People came from the four corners f the would to see this spectacle.
(147) Others who witnessed the spectacle in America described seeing "the blood-red Northern Lights aflame in the night sky".
(148) The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming spectacle.
(149) If she could quiet down and keep still a couple of minutes at a time, it would be a reposeful spectacle.
(150) Such a spectacle has seldom been seen of late years.
More similar words: spectacular, obstacle, aspect, suspect, spectrum, prospect, inspector, introspect, inspection, perspective, respectively, introspection, with respect to, irrespective of, manacle, miracle, special, species, specify, specific, expect, especially, specialty, speculate, specialist, specialize, expected, speculation, specifically, unexpected.