Example sentences for: ostentatious

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

  • But in recent decades, even as the amount of time families spend cooking has shrunk to nearly nothing, kitchens have become increasingly ostentatious.

  • Baker goes on to complain about the island's new popularity and the ostentatious displays of wealth.

  • There is the temptation to take the company's side, and the contrary temptation to prove one's independence with ostentatious criticism.

  • Avenida José A. Saco (more commonly called Enramada) is Santiago’s main shopping thoroughfare, whose faded 1950s neon signs and ostentatious buildings recall more prosperous — and capitalist — times.

  • Witness Knight's ostentatious donation to the legal-defense fund of blue-collar skater/thug Tonya Harding.


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