Words similar to name-dropping

Example sentences for: name-dropping

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

He starts with a bit of name-dropping, one of the minor sins of academic reviewers, to show his familiarity with the great names of 19th-century German philosophy, and continues with, “Johann Bachofen, colleague of Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacob Burckhardt at Zürich University.
His name-dropping is out of control.
As Charles Isherwood writes in Variety , "nothing fades more quickly than fabulousness"; the name-dropping glitter of the novel seems hopelessly old hat in the '90s.
"His name-dropping is almost pathological," says one friend.
Or the constant name-dropping: my old roommate, Stinky, is the papal nuncio.