Example sentences for: extravaganza

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

  • ' It has appeared in such unlikely combinations as talkathon, walkathon, aquathon, ski-a-thon, bike-athon, birdathon, sell-athon, sale-athon, curl-a-thon (a `hairstyling extravaganza'), and even the seemingly unnecessary jogathon and runathon (denoting more leisurely or shorter races than a marathon).

  • If its politics are often conservative (opponents compare some of the leaders with the province’s cherished collection of dinosaurs) they are of the adventurous brand favoring Calgary’s rodeos and the commercial extravaganza of Edmonton’s celebrated mammoth shopping mall.

  • According to the Globe , their wedding was a $1 million extravaganza.

  • Cheung Chau becomes the center of Hong Kong life once a year, usually in May, during the Bun Festival, a folklore extravaganza (see page 89).

  • Which is to say, Victor Hugo, rendered into music, is coming at us from three directions today, triophonically, so to speak--as a Broadway extravaganza, as a mass entertainment for children, and more arcanely, as classical music in a 19 th -century French style.


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