Example sentences for: flaunting

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

  • One prominent phenomenon is the flaunting use of homographs: words that appear in conventional dictionaries are given a meaning which is not to be derived logically or figuratively from the customary one.

  • Turning the cutout letters of Emily Post's Advice to Debutantes into a debutante's dress (designed by Evans and Wong, 1996), or knitting the preamble to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence into a cashmere sweater (designed by Joseph Golden, 1997), or even just making a dress out of random alphabet-lace (French, late 1920s)--all these are ways of flaunting modern fashion's basic iconoclasm.

  • Getting a call in public on your cell phone is like flaunting how many Christmas cards you receive.

  • Along with boutiques not found elsewhere, you’ll encounter Hollywood culture at its most flaunting and tawdry.

  • Pynchon : As befits a man guarding, as opposed to flaunting, his privacy, Pynchon has kept his private life private.


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