Example sentences for: flattering

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

  • "It has come to this: the natural desire of a young woman for an aggressive, handsome and powerful middle-aged man and the reciprocal pleasure that such a man has in the flattering attention of a pretty young girl--these totally mutual and consensual instincts that are built into the human psyche, whether one likes it or not--have created a tempest in the United States that could lead to a constitutional crisis.

  • But she rephrases the question in flattering terms: "For someone like me, who's a very passionate, loving woman, I think you often get close to that line."

  • To be perfectly candid with you though, Prudie's own style sense veers toward the more individual: Wear what is flattering and what you like.

  • She was wearing a flattering skintight jumpsuit, swinging her long hair, and easily hefting her precious burden, and she sauntered with total feminine assurance along that stony, hilly little street in a pair of platform-soled sandals with skyscraper-high heels.

  • [A]nd should the flattering expectation of obtaining this advantage for ourselves be considered entirely as chimerical?


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