Example sentences for: bombastic

How can you use “bombastic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The structure’s bombastic gigantism is an eloquent testimony to the Führer’s taste in architecture.

  • Because of its dramatic location and the fairytale turrets of its Gothic-Renaissance architecture, the Frontenac is one of the most charmingly bombastic of all the many grand hotels that the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways put up across the country as symbols of their commercial power.

  • His last dozen films have ranged from bombastic dreck ( Bram Stoker's Dracula , The Godfather Part III , The Cotton Club ) to infantile dreck ( Jack , Captain Eo ) to biographical dreck ( Tucker: The Man and His Dream ) to pretentious dreck ( One From the Heart , New York Stories ). He has also been producer for an astonishing volume of bad cinema and television, including NBC's The Odyssey ; the 1992 movie Wind ; and White Dwarf , a sci-fi movie for Fox.

  • Italian fascism remained more of a style than a coherent ideology, typified by the raised-arm salute replacing the “weakling” handshake, bombastic architecture, and Mussolini’s arrogant harangues from the Palazzo Venezia’s “heroic balcony” in Rome.

  • Begin your visit to the Latin Quarter at the place St-Michel, where students buy their books and stationery or gather around the bombastic 1860s fountain by Davioud.


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