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.

  • His opening lines strike one of the main themes of the day: bald-faced flattery of the Senate.

  • (Actually, the old monarch falls for Phil's flattery, which fools other powerful elders such as Justice Felix Frankfurter, for whom Phil clerks.)

  • 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.

  • Shameless flattery aside, we do have an issue and hope you can help us.


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