Example sentences for: extravagantly

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

  • Its centerpiece is a gilded seated wooden statue of the Kannon Bodhisattva, 3.3 m (11 ft) high, with 11 faces on the crown of its head and 40 arms (extravagantly known as “a thousand arms”) wielding bells, wheels, and lotus flowers.

  • It was “discovered” by the British in the 1930s, when this “beach of rocks,” strewn with extravagantly shaped eroded stacks, provided an inspirational refuge for writers and intellectuals.

  • Consider the difference between the conservative writer Francis Fukuyama and left winger Benjamin Barber, who, in their recent books, praise civil society extravagantly.

  • It was Henry's tax collector, John Morton, who invented the notorious policy known as "Morton's Fork": If you live extravagantly, then you can obviously afford to pay more taxes.

  • One of the things that has always fascinated me is the example of Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg, who spent their money so extravagantly and publicly in New York in the '80s and were practically stoned for it.


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