Example sentences for: extravagant

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

  • Commerce thrived, partly in response to the extravagant demands of the Tokugawa court.

  • He's right; it would be absurd for people living in 16 th century conditions to eat less well so that people living in 20 th century conditions could afford an even more extravagant lifestyle.

  • Will extravagant productions funded by the megalomaniac Canadian mogul Garth Drabinsky revitalize or destroy the American musical?

  • The palace is a bizarre and extravagant cocktail of Gothic, Renaissance, Manueline, and Moorish architecture fashioned as a love nest for Queen Maria II (1834–1853) and her smitten husband, Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

  • Prudie, for starters, thinks a $5 tip too extravagant for an eight block ride--unless, of course, the driver provided wonderful therapeutic advice.


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