Example sentences for: flashy

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

  • (In fact, it's a novel that Publishers Weekly just describes as "jagged and flashy," but that's beside the point.)

  • Among other things, he plays in a blues band, shoots pool with his buddy camels, rides a big hoggish motorcycle (without a helmet), drives a flashy convertible (without fastening his seat belt), and otherwise does a whole lot of hanging out in graphically interesting settings.

  • He did inherit a belief that hard work would solve most problems, that spending beyond one's means was a recipe for disaster, that flashy showoff behavior with borrowed money was understandable but foolish.

  • In her pathology of rumor in African-American culture, I Heard It Through the Grapevine , Patricia A. Turner suggests that symbolically potent products like athletic gear and flashy clothes--products that tote high price tags but are of dubious utility--invite hostile theorizing.

  • Its covers are as flashy as ever, though an arid cleanliness reigns within; it resembles nothing so much as an alumnae magazine.


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