Example sentences for: extravagantly

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

  • Its momentum shattered, the extravagantly funded Washington Post Magazine limped along for a couple of years until the Post abandoned its grand financial and editorial ambitions and downscaled it.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • When Venetian aristocrats gave up the high seas for a more leisurely life on the land, they built Palladian Renaissance villas and extravagantly frescoed Baroque country houses on the banks of the Brenta Canal between Venice and Padua.

  • 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.


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