Example sentences for: flamboyant

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

  • The nondrinking, nonsmoking, noncarousing, and mostly monolingual CIA officials of today do not have the vices of either their more adventurous contemporaries or their flamboyant Ivy League predecessors, but it is really unfair to expect them to cope with all those foreigners out there.

  • Our favorite--and most flowery--account of lavish celebrity spending comes from the Globe 's Charlene Tilton, who reports that Leonardo DiCaprio and "two flamboyant guy pals" were recently spotted perusing the sheets and towels at Los Angeles' Beverly Center.

  • Yes, Russell Long, the son of Huey Long, the flamboyant populist governor of Louisiana immortalized in All the King's Men . In the 1970s, Russell Long was anathema to most liberals, who viewed him as the major roadblock in the way of a more generous welfare state.

  • Wallace laid out in flamboyant and often witty form much of what would soon become the program of the New Right."

  • In a story titled "Richard Simmons' Sad Lonely Life," the Globe reports that the flamboyant exercise guru prefers food to sex, which he says is "overrated."


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