Example sentences for: ostentatious

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

  • Imeldific , made possible by Imelda Marcos, refers to ostentatious grandiosity and extravagant bad taste.

  • Rothschild's lack of familiarity with evolutionary theory may not be obvious to uninformed readers--his book bristles with ostentatious footnotes and seemingly learned references.

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

  • Their tombs and stone markers range from the ostentatious to the elegant, the well preserved to the decrepit.

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


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