Example sentences for: ostentatious

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

  • Another ostentatious marble atrium foyer marks number 75.

  • 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.

  • Some have argued that Boorman, the director of Excalibur (1981) and Hope and Glory (1987), doesn't employ his extravagant visual gifts in The General , which is in black and white and isn't ostentatious in its mythic resonances.

  • Wisdom's long weary journey from the eastCeased when it halted once to take its easeIn some oasis with a book, a vaseOf flowers, a cup of wine, love in a valeOf silken-covered sand, no weathervaneClattering, ostentatious, giving ventTo windy thoughts, yet knowing where it wentThe overgoing of the sad, late west.


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