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:

Or the constant name-dropping: my old roommate, Stinky, is the papal nuncio.
The tone is uneven: Dunne jerks from moralistic pronouncements on O.J.'s guilt to smarmy name-dropping with the ease of an evangelical hack.
The etiquette expert doesn't want to be mistaken for a Tory stick-in-the-mud--she's all-American, she's egalitarian, she's up-to-date--but she's become a self-important, name-dropping crusader in the civility wars herself.
The most apt description of Ellis' achievement comes from Rhonda Lieberman in the Village Voice , who says that in this portrait of "post-macho," name-dropping, Prada-clad male models, Ellis "captures a cultural moment of radical dandyhood."
In his best core-curriculum name-dropping style, Will compared Miss Manners on the civilizing power of social convention to Plato, Burke, Lincoln, Metternich, the Founding Fathers, and Pope Pius IX.