Example sentences for: extravagantly

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

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

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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