Example sentences for: flattery

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

  • Imitation, after all, is the sincerest form of flattery.

  • Audiences should need no flattery.

  • Applesauce (an American variant is apple sass ), which has come to designate a `camouflage of flattery,' is excessively sweet, mushy, pulpy and insubstantial, and thrifty boarding houses serve an abundance of the stuff to divert awareness from the scarcity of more nourishing fare.

  • Miss Manners, who doubtless blushed at such treatment, has been trying to live up to the philosophical flattery and live down the ideological company ever since.

  • For the moment, this beta release is only being promoted in Readme--that is, to our most loyal and discerning readers (who are also immune to crass flattery).


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