Example sentences for: flattery

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

  • Stars such as Richard Gere and Billy Joel fell for her out-of-the-blue phone calls, gossip, and flattery.

  • Also, of course, skeptical of cant and immune to flattery.

  • An old Chinese proverb, referring to the area’s linguistic charms, claims that even an argument in Suzhou sounds sweeter than flattery in Guangzhon.

  • But when her web of lies begins to unravel and he calls her "pretty bird," she rolls her eyes in a gesture at once accepting of his flattery, aware of her deceit, and resentful of his condescension.

  • This points to a final press-friendly quality of McCain's: brilliant flattery.


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