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:

But this book is weirdly enjoyable for what is not in it: conventional film gossip, name-dropping, show-biz folly of any kind.
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.
Or the constant name-dropping: my old roommate, Stinky, is the papal nuncio.
"His name-dropping is almost pathological," says one friend.
His name-dropping is out of control.